Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
2013
I believe that this is the only surviving example of a Commer half deck bus, although I think that a more modern version was later produced where the engine was not inside a bonnet. Its career, as you will see in the next two images, was originally with the R.A.F., but it is basically the same model as used by B.O.A.C. It is now housed in the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York in England. (Andrew S) <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1959
A B.O.A.C. Comet on the apron. North Point is probably behind it and note the half-decked B.O.A.C. bus. They were used in the mid to late fifties to ferry passengers from the Air Terminal in the foyer of the Peninsual Hotel to the airport and then out to the waiting planes. (Andrew S) <Read more ...>
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. <Read more ...>