While researching retired Hong Kong buses I came across an interesting scene – a London street turned into Hong Kong, with a Citybus double decker driving past stops covered in neon signs.
The photos date back to December 2021 and the filming of the fifth series of Netflix television series The Crown, for an episode covering the July 1997 handover of the then-British colony of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
As for the backstory of the bus – it’s former Citybus tri-axle Leyland Olympian double decker #152, originally registered ET 778 in 1991. It transported to the UK in 2004 by then Citybus owner Stagecoach for further use on their operations there, eventually being saved from scrap by Dave Rogers, where it is now preserved.