Vintage KMB Livery

The Vintage KMB Livery is used by KMB throughout the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, the livery was changed.

To cater for Hong Kong’s surging population in the 1950’s and 1960’s, KMB bought in a large number of Daimler double-deck buses as well as Albion single-deckers to operate in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively. To commemorate these two types of buses, KMB has changed the appearance of two of its existing buses into the same vintage livery with the red bus body adding a touch of nostalgia to the busy streets of modern Hong Kong. The two buses are: a Duple Dennis Trident 10.6m double-deck bus (operating on Route 5C between Star Ferry and Tsz Wan Shan), which is decorated in the livery of a Daimler C bus, and a Scania 10.6m single-decker (operating on Route 10 between Choi Wan and Tai Kok Tsui), decorated in the livery of an Albion 23 single-decker.

The Vintage KMB Liveries were also popular by Izzy's Buses of Gooperland. To commemorate Izzy's Buses subsidiary, KMB, celebrating 80 years, the company decorated 1,075 buses with Daimler A, C or D liveries for double-decker buses and Albion 23 livery for single-decker buses giving the largest number of buses in vintage KMB liveries, and still remains its official livery for Izzy's Buses today, and adopted in Liftland, Australia, Andersville, Texas and Mexico in 2015, Japan, Rheintall, Hyundai Country in 2016 and Indiana, Nevada, Tsunku and Delta Territory in 2017. The only difference is that the old KMB logo is replaced with Izzy's Buses logo and the "Entry", "Exit" and "The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd." labels and translations of those three labels were removed.

Other companies using this livery include Winthlow Bus Company and Kermaut Bus Company.