Kuwait
Citybus Kuwait took 175 Yutong ZK6118HGAs in 2009. 94 with Voith D854.3 gearboxes and 81 with ZF 6HP504nMOT gearboxes. 5002 is a Voith example. © Derek Cheng itybus Kuwait Yutong Showing offside of Yutong body in the Kuwait town centre itself. © Derek Cheng Citybus Kuwait DAF About 3 DAF coaches sitting in depot pretty much derelict in August 2009. © Derek Cheng Sea of Yutongs And this is just the first row…about 40 here I think. The Citybus Kuwait depot is pretty much open, just casually walk pass the rear parking yard. © Derek Cheng RML2497 sits at the Citybus Kuwait depot. The Engineering management seems to have a British background. © Derek Cheng KGL is one of three route service operators in Kuwait. Seems to extensively use coaches for their runs. © Derek Cheng KPTC Chana bus . Chana is a Chinese bus builder based in North East China. Very surprised to find these units, especially when I saw a full yard of these! Apparently they have a couple of hundreds for school work. © Derek Cheng
KPTC seems to possess quite a big fleet of Mercedes/MCVs. © Derek Cheng KPTC Volvo B7R/ELBA This ELBA body appears to be a one and only in Kuwait. © Derek Cheng KPTC Kinglong Some research returns KPTC has two of these King Long XMQ6121G buses. © Derek Cheng KPTC also has quite a number of Daewoos in service. This is a BV120MA © Derek Cheng Although more like a coach, these Daewoos are also used on route services. © Derek Cheng Volvo B7R with rear door Very unusual arrangement on a B7R. © Derek Cheng South African Buscarr bodies on Volvo B7R, also popular with KPTC. © Derek Cheng
Bagdad and Kuwait deckers sitting side by side in a closed yard. © Derek Cheng KPTC 5517 is an Ikarus 216.01 build in 1989. Picture was taken in 2005 when this bus was already retired. © KPTC