Bus Exhibition Centre of Hong Kong
KMB - Buses of the Chinese Horoscopes
The Chinese lunar calendar is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2637 B.C. when the first cycle of the zodiac was introduced. One complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five simple cycles of 12 years each. Twelve animals were assigned to each of the 12 years when, according to legend, the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from Earth. Only twelve animals came to bid him farewell. As a reward he named a year after each one in the order that it arrived. First came the Rat, then the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Goat, the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog and the Pig. Thus, we have the twelve animal signs (the Chinese Horoscopes) of today. Starting from 1998, which was a year of the Tiger, in the beginning of every year Kowloon Motor Bus specially decorates a number of buses with the Chinese Horoscope of that year, to celebrate the coming of a new Chinese year.
This page contains photos of these specially decorated buses. More photos will be added in future. Please click on the photos for the enlarged version.
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Year of the TIGER, 1998
- Dennis 12m Dragon
3AD52 (HL2438)
- Photo Date: 1998/09/09
- Route: 104
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- Dennis 11m Dragon AD94 (FH 8543)
- Photo Date: 2000/09/17
- Route: 6A
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Year of the RABBIT, 1999
- Leyland 11m Olympian AL121 (FF 3078)
- Photo Date: 1999/11/18
- Route: 1
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- Volvo 11m Olympian AV101 (GL 3611)
- Photo Date: 2000/07/08
- Route: 98A
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- Volvo 11m Olympian AV381 (HN 8357)
- Photo Date: 1999/06/10
- Route: 1
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- Volvo 12m Olympian 3AV329 (HG 4169)
- Photo Date: 1999/02/13
- Route: 6
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Year of the DRAGON, 2000
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV381 (HN 8357)
- Photo Date: 2000/09/17
- Route: 1
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- Volvo 11m Olympian AV513 (HU 208)
- Photo Date: 2000/01/02
- Route: 238X
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Year of the SNAKE, 2001
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV381 (HN 8357)
- Photo Date: 2000/12/29
- Route: 224X
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Year of the HORSE, 2002
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV381 (HN 8357)
- Photo Date: 2002/02/12
- Route: 63X
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Year of the GOAT, 2003
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV326 (HL 9881)
- Photo Date: 2003/01/12
- Route: 30X
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Year of the MONKEY, 2004
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV381 (HN 8357)
- Photo Date: 2004/01/04
- Route: 63X
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Year of the ROASTER, 2005
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV326 (HL 9881)
- Photo Date: 2005/03/19
- Route: 30X
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Year of the DOG, 2006
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV393 (HR 889)
- Photo Date: 2006/01/31
- Route: 3C
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Year of the PIG, 2007
- Volvo 11m Olympian AV415 (HR 9800)
- Photo Date: 2006/12/30
- Route: 93K
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