I travel regularly by Neeta Volvo’s B7Rs between Mumbai and Pune. One day in November 2005, at the Foodtrack halfway point at Sajgaon, Raigad between Mumbai and Pune, I saw a different foreign looking bus. It was not a Volvo B7R, but looked certainly well made.
After some enquiring, I found out, it was a Chinese King-Long KL6113 coach made in India by a joint venture of that Chinese company with JCBL of Chandigarh. They have an assembly factory at Lalru on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway.
The bus is completely imported in kit form (except tyres), from King Long, China, and assembled at JCBL’s plant in India.
It is powered by a British Cummins C245 20 turbo-intercooler 8270cc diesel engine mated to a ZF S6-90 all-synchromesh six-speed gearbox. The suspension is from Holland-Neway of USA. The brake-system is a four-circuit brake system with ABS.
Ram |