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Commer Crew bus a.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Sun, 2019-04-21 19:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2013

I believe that this is the only surviving example of a Commer half deck bus, although I think that a more modern version was later produced where the engine was not inside a bonnet.  Its career, as you will see in the next two images, was originally with the R.A.F., but it is basically the same model as used by B.O.A.C.  It is now housed in the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York in England.  (Andrew S)

Commer Crew bus b.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Sun, 2019-04-21 19:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2013

Commer Crew bus c.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Sun, 2019-04-21 19:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2013

Comet at Kai Tak

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Thu, 2019-04-18 19:02
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959

A B.O.A.C. Comet on the apron.  North Point is probably behind it and note the half-decked B.O.A.C. bus.  They were used in the mid to late fifties to ferry passengers from the Air Terminal in the foyer of the Peninsual Hotel to the airport and then out to the waiting planes. (Andrew S)

BOAC half-bus to Kai Tak from the Peninsula Hotel

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2016-04-02 21:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949
Places shown in this photo: 
The Peninsula Hotel [1927- ]

This BOAC bus is parked outside the Peninsula Hotel on what is now a very busy corner.

The hotel had run its own bus before WW2 for various airlines denoting which one by hanging appropriate signboards on its outside. No pictures of one have yet emerged, although there is a newsprint clipping announcing its arrival in HK in the late 1930s.

1954 Hankow Road

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2015-12-28 05:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1954
Places shown in this photo: 
Ho Tung Mansions (K. I. L. No. 527) [1931-1966]
Hankow Road [????- ]
Mohan's (1st generation) [????- ]
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1950s Hankow Road

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2015-01-04 08:22

Hankow Road. Like the BOAC bus parked outside the Peninsula Hotel.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1955
Places shown in this photo: 
Ho Tung Mansions (K. I. L. No. 527) [1931-1966]
Hankow Road [????- ]
Junction of Hankow and Middle Roads [????- ]
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