Hino HS3KRK

The Hino HS3KRK is a rear-engined, single-deck city bus chassis built by the Japanese maker Hino Motors and belonging to its HS series. Hebrew Wikipedia records it as produced in 1998 and 1999, with two side doors, serving as an urban bus in Singapore. The body was built in Australia by Volgren, the same body maker whose bodywork also appears on the Mercedes-Benz O405. In Singapore, Trans-Island Bus Services bought twelve of them in 1998 and 1999: a demonstrator designated HS3KRKA with a Volgren CR221 body, followed by eleven HS3KRKK buses, and the operator's successor SMRT Buses ran them until they were fully retired by April 2013. They were right-hand drive, 12 metres long, high floor and Euro II, with a Hino K13U engine of about 13.3 litres and a four-speed ZF Ecomat automatic gearbox, and they replaced older Hino HT238K buses that the same operator had bought in the 1980s.