Kowloon Motor Bus Fleet Numbering
Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) of Hong Kong maintains a system to code their fleet.
- Note: All the length specified in this section, including in the following leading paragraph, is only nominal. An Olympian 11m is not, and never exactly 11000mm long but some 11300mm.
Read more about Kowloon Motor Bus Fleet Numbering: Classic Age, Second-hand Classic Age, Age of 3-axle Buses, Age of Air-conditioned Buses, Age of Super Low Floor Buses, Long Win Bus
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Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
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“I’d take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich on toast. I thought I was living large!... When I was at the Ritz with the publisher a few months ago, I did think, “Oh my God, I’m in the Ritz tearoom.” ... The person who was so happy to sit at the Woolworths counter is now sitting at the Ritz, listening to the harp, and wondering what tea to order.... [ellipsis in source] Am I awake?”
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“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
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