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MAN AG

MAN Aktiengesellschaft is a German language mechanical engineering company based in Munich.MAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles....
 24.310 is a low floor double decker bus model built for the Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 market. Unlike other low-floor double decker buses in Hong Kong, there are steps in the lower deck aisle after the rear exit.

For the type code 24.310, 24 means that the bus has the maximum gross weight of 24 tonnes, whilst 310 means that the maximum power of the engine is .

998, Citybus
Citybus (Hong Kong)

Citybus Limited is one of the three major bus operators in Hong Kong. It provides both Franchising and non-franchised bus service. The franchised route network serves mainly Hong Kong Island, cross-Victoria Harbour routes , Ocean Park Hong Kong, North Lantau and Hong Kong International Airport....
 ordered a number of MAN 24.310 buses with Berkhof
Berkhof

Berkhof is a Netherlands-based bus and Coach builder, founded in 1970 by Arthur Berkhof and his son Henk. They started with only 10 employees in a 1,000 m? factory....
/Volgren
Volgren

Volgren is an Australian bus manufacturing previously owned by Volvo and the Grenda but is now entirely owned by the latter. It was established in 1977, initially supplying bodywork for Volvo buses sold in Australia, and later supplying bus bodywork on all types of chassis for both local sale and export....
 bodywork after the trial of an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-built MAN 24.350.






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MAN
MAN AG

MAN Aktiengesellschaft is a German language mechanical engineering company based in Munich.MAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles....
 24.310 is a low floor double decker bus model built for the Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 market. Unlike other low-floor double decker buses in Hong Kong, there are steps in the lower deck aisle after the rear exit.

For the type code 24.310, 24 means that the bus has the maximum gross weight of 24 tonnes, whilst 310 means that the maximum power of the engine is .

Hong Kong


History before introduction

In 1998, Citybus
Citybus (Hong Kong)

Citybus Limited is one of the three major bus operators in Hong Kong. It provides both Franchising and non-franchised bus service. The franchised route network serves mainly Hong Kong Island, cross-Victoria Harbour routes , Ocean Park Hong Kong, North Lantau and Hong Kong International Airport....
 ordered a number of MAN 24.310 buses with Berkhof
Berkhof

Berkhof is a Netherlands-based bus and Coach builder, founded in 1970 by Arthur Berkhof and his son Henk. They started with only 10 employees in a 1,000 m? factory....
/Volgren
Volgren

Volgren is an Australian bus manufacturing previously owned by Volvo and the Grenda but is now entirely owned by the latter. It was established in 1977, initially supplying bodywork for Volvo buses sold in Australia, and later supplying bus bodywork on all types of chassis for both local sale and export....
 bodywork after the trial of an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-built MAN 24.350. However in early 1999, Transport Department of Hong Kong
Transport Department (Hong Kong)

Transport Department is responsible for transportation related policy in Hong Kong. The departments and related agencies report to the Transport and Housing Bureau....
 set quota on the number of buses owned by Citybus, and therefore the order was cancelled involuntarily.

At that time, construction of 32 Berkhof-bodied buses and 2 Volgren-bodied buses had been completed, so MAN had to find buyers for these buses. Finally, one Berkhof-bodied bus was retained by MAN for testing, and the others were sold for operations in Hong Kong.

Kwoon Chung Motors

In 1999, Kwoon Chung Motors, a coach and rental bus operator in Hong Kong, took over one of the Berkhof-bodied MAN 24.310 abandoned by Citybus and put the bus into service in 2000.

The bus was primarily used as a staff bus (for Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport is the main airport in Hong Kong. It is colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport , because it was built on the Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong#Islands of Chek Lap Kok by land reclamation, and also to distinguish it from the old Hong Kong Airport ....
). But during rush hours, it could be seen allocated to New Lantao Bus
New Lantao Bus

The New Lantao Bus Company Limited – known as New Lantao Bus, or NLB – is a franchised bus company operating in Hong Kong....
 (subsidiary of Kwoon Chung) routes in Tung Chung
Tung Chung

Tung Chung, namely the eastern stream, is an area situated on the north-western coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Tung Chung, currently one of the latest generation of new towns, was formerly a rural village around Tung Chung Wan, and along the delta and lower courses of Tung Chung River and Ma Wan Chung in the north-western coast of L...
.

Kowloon Motor Bus

Kowloon Motor Bus
Kowloon Motor Bus

The Kowloon Motor Bus Company Limited , 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....
 took over the other 32 MAN 24.310 buses abandoned by Citybus. 30 buses with Berkhof bodywork entered service in 2000. The 2 buses with Volgren bodywork, which were once stored in Volgren's facility at Perth, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, entered service in 2002.

Later, KMB ordered 15 MAN 24.310 buses with Volgren bodywork. They had the staircase moved forward, had yellow instead of red handrails and no seats were fitted above the front wheels. They entered service in 2002.

All of these 47 buses are allocated to Tuen Mun
Tuen Mun

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 Depot and mainly run on express routes serving Tuen Mun
Tuen Mun

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, Tsuen Wan
Tsuen Wan

Tsuen Wan is a bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong, opposite to Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. A market town of the Tsuen Wan emerged for the surrounding villages and fleets of fishing boats in the area....
, Kwai Tsing Districts and Kowloon
Kowloon

Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
.

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