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The Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( 1933 ) Limited ( KMB ; ), a company of the Transport International Holdings Limited, is the largest franchised bus operators in Hong Kong, and one of the largest privately owned public bus operators in the world.
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Founded in 1933, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( 1933 ) Limited ( KMB ) is one of the largest privately-owned public bus operators in the world.
* 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people.
In 1989, the Common Stored Value Ticket system was extended to Kowloon Motor Bus ( KMB ) buses providing a feeder service to MTR and KCR stations and to Citybus, and was also extended to a limited number of non-transport applications, such as payments at photobooths and for fast food vouchers.
* Bus services provided by Kowloon Motor Bus, Citybus and MTR
In December 2008, Kowloon Motor Bus has a fleet of 3, 933 buses with 3, 805 double-deckers and more than 95 % of the double-deck fleet is air-conditioned.
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However, buses in Hong Kong ( Kowloon Motor Bus ) do not have Parking mode ( P ), instead, they are using a single lever to prevent the whole bus from moving.
* Presentation materials provided by Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( 1933 ) Limited on RoadShow Multi-Media on Board Service to Legislative Council, Hong Kong ( 2002 )
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It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport International Holdings Limited ( formerly Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings ).
Similar to Kowloon Motor Bus, Long Win Bus also has a bus numbering system.
Once a Long Win Dennis Trident catered Kowloon Motor Bus ' route 960 for a day.
( From near :) Kowloon Motor Bus, Long Win, and KCR Feeder Bus | KCR bus stop posts in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.
Citybus Limited operates 13 of the routes and Long Win Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kowloon Motor Bus, operates 12.
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* Kowloon Motor Bus serves mainly Po Lam and Hang Hau areas.
* Sir Shiu-kin Tang KStJ, JP-Philanthropist, Co-founder of Kowloon Motor Bus
* Sir Sik-nin Chau CBE, JP-Ex-Senior Unofficial Member of Legislative Council and Executive Council, Ex-Chairman of Kowloon Motor Bus, Ex-Chairman of HKTDC
The KCRC was also blamed for its route planning and forceful reduction of bus services, which has mainly been provided by Kowloon Motor Bus after operations began.
These included Kowloon Motor Bus, China Motor Bus, the Hong Kong Tramways ( which served the Happy Valley area ) and many more.
Rights were given to Kowloon Motor Bus ( KMB ) on the North side, and China Motor Bus ( CMB ) on the Island.
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New World First Bus mainly serves Hong Kong Island, South Tseung Kwan O and the newly developed areas in west Kowloon.
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Hong Kong Tramways Company are to advise the Government that they would like to train into the Kai Tak Development Area and the West Kowloon Cultural District.
The story of Kai Tak started in 1922 when two businessmen Ho Kai and Au Tak formed the Kai Tak Investment Company in order to reclaim land in Kowloon for development.
It was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, adopting its present name in 1898.
The company was founded by Parsee merchant Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala as the " Kowloon Ferry Company " in 1888.
On his retirement in 1898, Naorojee sold the company to The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at that time owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Sir Paul Chater.
The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company used to operate numerous cross-harbour routes between various piers of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.
Founded in Hong Kong in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate with capital provided by Shewan Tomes and Company and the Kadoorie family, by 1919 it had established a power station and was supplying electricity for street lights in Kowloon.
In 1920, Mr. Au Chak Mun ( also known as Au Tak ), one of the two people who reclaimed the land at Kowloon Bay and founded the Kai Tak Investment Company, died and he bequeathed a donation of HK $ 10, 000 to support Dr. Ts ' o Seen Wan's plan.
The Kowloon Motor Bus Company ( KMB ) has bus routes that serve Nai Chung:
They also provided interpreters, clerks, Regimental Police and light-infantry personnel in Dragon Company of the General Service Corps ( GSC ) headquartered in Osborn Baracks, Kowloon Tong.
Spink started a Boys ' Brigade Company attached to the St. Andrew's Church in Kowloon, in response to popular requests for Scouting activities in the expatriate community of Hong Kong.
The first Star House ( Godown ) was a two storey warehouse structure built in 1923 for The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and demolished in 1963 to make way for the current 19 floor retail and commercial concourse.
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Buses operated by various independent companies flourished in the 1920s until the government formally issued franchises for the China Motor Bus and Kowloon Motor Bus companies in 1933.
A historic list of buses operated by Kowloon Motor Bus since 1933:
In 1933 the Shing Mun Reservoir was built to meet the increasing demand for fresh water due to the urbanisation of Kowloon.
Completed in 1933, it runs from Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon to the very north of the New Territories, serving south, west and north New Territories, being one of the most distant roads in early Hong Kong.
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Its sister company, New World First Ferry Services ( Macau ) Limited, operates a fast ferry service between Kowloon ( China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui ) and Macau ( Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier ), which was operated by the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry until January 2000.
PITCL was originally created as a joint venture company between a wholly owned subsidiary of KMB Group ( operator of Kowloon Motor Bus ) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry Limited ( HKKF ).
On October 6, 2004, DBS Bank ( Hong Kong ) Limited announced that, during the renovation of its branch in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, in Kowloon, when the bank attempted to remove more than 900 empty safety boxes from the branch, 83 safety boxes rented by customers and containing valuables were accidentally removed.
Khatme Nubuwwat Islamic Council Limited with its Markiz ( head office ) in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, is headed by Qari Muhammad Tayyab Qasmi.
** The ECW body was also moderately successful in overseas markets with Hong Kong's Kowloon Motor Bus, Citybus Limited and China Motor Bus ( CMB ) and Greece-based EAS of Athens placing significant sized orders.
This combination was also popular in overseas markets-Hong Kong and Singapore in particular, attracting substantial orders from Kowloon Motor Bus ( KMB ), Citybus Limited, China Motor Bus ( CMB )-locally assembled in CKD form, China Light and Power, Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation and Singapore Bus Service ( SBS ).
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