I would like to ask a question: did the old Japanese CAC buses
(the Hino HT238K and the Nissan U31SCN (not the U31RCN - the
current CAC Japanese buses we have)) ever serve the bus routes in
Yishun back in 1996/7/8? I remember seeing one CAC Nissan U31SCN on
route 800 around that period, and also took one of them on route
854, but the air-conditioner were switched off and they operated as
non-air conditioned buses then (I think it was common at that time
to operate them like that?). I suspect I saw a Nissan U31SCN on
route 171, but I was not sure (I do know that there was a
U31RCN in recent
times though...)
Also, prior to their deployment on routes other than the old route
950 and routes 951 and 952, what was the kind of destos that those
buses used? I remember that the air-conditioned CAC Nissans used
destos with a blue background, and the numbers in white, while I
vaguely recall seeing a CAC Hino on route 952 (I think), using a
seemingly plastic desto with a black background (then-TIBS, from
what I know, used cloth destos for most of their buses at that
time). I do know that when the CAC Hinos started appearing on route
169, they also used plastic destos, which I think was also used on
the first Dennis Lance buses when they arrived on route 169
(remember - the first Dennis Lance buses didn't have EDSes then).
However, when the Hinos became CSS buses, from what I recall, they
used the cloth destos. Did they change something in there, or was
that particular type of bus designed to handle both types of
destos?
