This BOAC bus is parked outside the Peninsula Hotel on what is now a very busy corner.
The hotel had run its own bus before WW2 for various airlines denoting which one by hanging appropriate signboards on its outside. No pictures of one have yet emerged, although there is a newsprint clipping announcing its arrival in HK in the late 1930s.
Date picture taken
15 Jun 1949
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Commer Commando Crew Bus XAT 368
This BOAC bus is Commer's "Commando Crew Bus XAT368".
Re: Commer Commando Crew Bus, XAT368
The captioned bus that is mentioned in the last posting with registration XAT 368 can be viewed here
BOAC bus
The 1937 bus is illustrated here - with Imperial Airways as it was back then.
Page 109 | 13th January 1939 | The Commercial Motor Archive
Airport coach
The ‘Commercial Motors’ image also appears in the book ‘Hong Kong Buses Volume Two’ by Mike Davis, probably from the same source. also see more info on this image at https://gwulo.com/atom/24307
For subsequent discussions on the ‘BOAC coach outside the Peninsula Hotel’ image search Gwulo on airport coaches or airport buses.