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Dragons, including 235 9.9 metre buses, 360 11-metre buses and 170 12-metre buses. The last Dennis Dragon was retired on July 6, 2017, which
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The DMs were retired by August 2002 and sold out, with an 11-m non-air-conditioned Dennis Condor (fleet number DM28) regarded by NWFB as its last "hot dog" ("hot dog" is a nickname in Hong Kong for non-air-conditioned buses). DM18 and DM22 has been under New World First Travel (as open-top buses,
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and were withdrawn on 11 February 2014). DM9, DM12 and DM25 has been sold to
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bodywork for evaluation. KMB purchased 188 Duple Metsec bodied 12-metre Dennis
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904:Dorchester
679:References
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630:Manchester
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213:Powertrain
182:Production
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78:newspapers
21:Surf Punks
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292:Successor
198:1, 2 or 3
185:1982–1999
1177:Category
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159:Overview
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330:History
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224:Gardner
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