Kowloon Motor Bus ("KMB") transferred 20 Dennis Tridents of Long Win Bus ("LWB") to their own fleet during 1999-2001. All the transferred buses were re-painted in KMB standard gold livery for low-floor double-deckers. One exception was 107 (HN 2195), which had already been a golden bus since new.
The buses once could be distinguished from those standard KMB Alexander Tridents by various features. For examples, the extra dipped headlights on the bumper, the front destination blind panel, the luggage rack, or the orange seats, were retained. However some of these differences disappeared after modification work in later years.
During the earlier periods after the transfers, the original LWB fleet numbers remained unchanged. Among the 20 buses, 6 later returned to the LWB fleet, they were 101, 124, 160, 161, 171 and 173. The remain 14 stayed in the KMB fleet permanently with their fleet numbers re-assigned to ATR355-368 in 2002.
During 2010-2015, further 103 Tridents (ATR393-495) were transferred from LWB to KMB including the aforesaid 6 buses once returned to LWB.
This page includes photographs of the original 20 LWB Tridents transferred to KMB fleet during 1999-2001:
- For the 14 buses which were permanently transferred to KMB since 2002, photographs on the left were taken when the bus was in the LWB fleet before the transfer, while those on the right were taken after the bus was transferred to KMB.
- For the 6 buses which were returned to LWB and then transferred again to KMB, photographs were in the following sequence from left to right: (a) when the bus was in LWB fleet before the transfer; (b) when the bus was transferred to KMB for the first time; (c) when the bus was in LWB fleet for the second time; and (d) when the bus was transferred to KMB for the second time.
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