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Hong Kong Bus Model -- Kowloon Motor Bus Volvo Super Olympian Alexander 10.6m
Volvo Super Olympian, also known as B10TL, is the low floor replacement of the 3-axle version of Volvo Olympian double decker bus (its 2-axle version was replaced by Volvo B7TL).
It was unveiled in 1998, with one chassis being sent to Hong Kong for a motor show held by UITP in the same year. The chassis was later sent back to the UK.
12 m version
KMB's Volvo Super Olympian 12 m (3ASV442) with Volgren body.Kowloon Motor Bus ordered the first batch of 61 Super Olympians with ZF 4HP590 gearbox, Alexander ALX500 body and plastic route display in 1998. The first bus passed the tilt test of the Transport Department in May 1999 and was licensed in August 1999. They were numbered 3ASV1-61 and all of them entered service in 1999. All except the prototype 3ASV3 had narrow 2+2 seats on the upper deck.
A total of 80 Super Olympians (3ASV62-141) entered service in 2000/2001. These buses had electronic route displays and the gearbox was changed to ZF 5HP590. 3ASV78 was the 3000th Walter Alexander-bodied bus supplied to KMB, and 3ASV141 was the first KMB bus to meet Euro III emission standards.
The last 351 Super Olympians (3ASV142-492), including 21 which were fitted with Volgren CR223LD body, entered service in 2001/2002. All of these buses had their chassis built in Poland. They had their D10A285 engines built to meet the Euro III emission standard and had ALCOA front wheels. 3ASV297 was coated with special metallic paint, which shows different colours (mainly green and purple), depending on the angle of light reflection.
10.6 m version
KMB's Volvo Super Olympian 10.6 m (ASV83). The radiator of the 10.6 m Super Olympians are moved backward as a result of shorter wheelbase.Kowloon Motor Bus is the only buyer of 10.6 m Super Olympians. The first 49 10.6 m Super Olympians (Alexander ALX500 body, numbered ASV1-49) were introduced in 2001. They are equipped with D10A285 Euro II engines and had ALCOA front wheels.
ASV50, which was put into service in 2002, is a prototype short-wheelbase Super Olympian (chassis built in 1999), and also the only short-wheelbase Super Olympian built in Scotland. It is equipped with an Euro III version of D10A285 engine and ZF 4HP590 gearbox rather than 5HP590 in other ASVs.
ASV51-100 are equipped with the Euro III version of D10A285 engines as well. They are almost identical with ASV1-49, but they have a slightly different interior design. Only the first 24 were put into service in 2003. The remaining 26 were stored for more than 1 year, with its engine tuned to increase its output power, and they were put into service between September 2004 and March 2005.
12 m wider version
KMB's Volvo Super Olympian 12 m (AVW35) with Wright body.In January 2003, Kowloon Motor Bus received the first Super Olympian with Wright 2550 mm-wide body (once known as the Wright Explorer). Like the TransBus Enviro 500, straight staircase and plug door (only for the exit) were fitted. It was numbered AVW1 and was registered in March 2003.
The next 49 buses (AVW2-50) with slightly different design followed shortly after AVW1, they entered service in 2003/2004. One of them (fleet number AVW47) had participated in Coach and Bus 2003 and EFE Showbus 2003 in UK before being delivered.
The last 50 buses (AVW51-100), which are almost identical with AVW2-50 (but have its engine tuned to increase its output power), entered service in 2004/2005.
Volvo Super Olympian. (2007, August 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:50, August 26, 2007
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