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Solved: 727 № 226 - Huanghai DD 6-Series
« on: April 18, 2024, 06:26:36 AM »
Please help us identify this apparent Chinese bus for a point.
(DPRK, 2010s)
« Last Edit: June 14, 2024, 04:03:26 PM by 727 »

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2024, 02:19:25 PM »
It appears to be more North Korean than Chinese

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2024, 04:34:24 PM »
It appears to be more North Korean than Chinese

Seems to have a front end typical to old Huanghai buses. The door placement and window configuration are almost certainly Chinese.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2024, 04:05:01 AM by 727 »

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2024, 01:52:21 AM »
Dandong? This bus was used to take tourist from China to North Korea. Around 2017

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2024, 02:41:32 AM »
Dandong is the Chinese city tourists were coming from. The bus in your photo although with a very very similar livery is a Huanghai DD-something but the windows don't match with the one in the initial post. Must be another model.

Another Dandong-Pyongyang Huanghai travel bus below about two decades earlier.
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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2024, 08:50:57 AM »
5 points

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2024, 01:02:47 PM »
April 1985, the first Huanghai DD680G bus produced by Dandong Automobile Modification Factory. Very similar windows pattern

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2024, 02:03:50 PM »
Locked. Pretty convincing!
Need a model with a rear door like in the main.

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2024, 03:04:54 PM »
This model must be the Original 1985 DD680 long distance bus.
I copy-paste part of the history:
"In 1983, Dandong Automobile Modification Plant was renamed Dandong Automobile Manufacturing Plant, which indicates that the focus of the factory's work has shifted from automobile modification to automobile design and manufacturing. In 1985, with the approval of China Automobile Corporation (85) Zhongji Zi No. 537, Dandong Bus Research Institute was established to undertake technical research work in the bus industry. At the beginning of the establishment of the bus research institute, it will focus on the design of similar products in the foreign bus industry, and improve the body design of DD650/680 buses. In view of the problems of the original model, such as the small area of the front and rear windshield and side windows, the transition of the large rounded corners of the body and the rough interior, the customer research institute cooperated with the factory to complete the design improvement in the short term, and launched the DD650G/DD680G large bus, which increased the height of the front windshield from 840mm to 1100mm, and the size of the rear windshield was increased and formed as a whole, and the side windows were doubled compared with the original DD680 long-distance bus, and the overall shape of the body was changed to a square tone and a small rounded transition. The indoor facilities have also been improved in accordance with the large buses of the same period abroad, and the seats with high backrest angle are added. In 1985, the G-type bus completed all the tooling design and production line transformation, and was put into mass production in 1986, with an annual production capacity of 1,500 units."

I'm still searching for an identifying picture

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2024, 08:29:51 AM »
I've not been able to find a picture of the second Dandong Huanghai DD680, but comparing these three buses, it can be seen the evolution. The first the oval windows pattern, without back door. the second (Puzzle bus), the oval windows pattern with back door. And in the third, the new windows pattern with back door. All changes were made by Dandong Bus Research Institute

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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2024, 03:23:10 PM »
Their front end look that have the same pattern, even that one you posted
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Re: 727 № 226
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2024, 04:01:09 PM »
Solved and awarded!

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Re: Solved: 727 № 226 - Huanghai DD 6-Series
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2024, 11:17:23 PM »
Thank you!!