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1. The facilities offered in Hong Kong by the franchised road-transport companies, namely two bus companies, and one tramway company, being, for whatever reason, inadequate to satisfy the legitimate requirements of the public for transportation, there arose, before and during the riotous disturbances of 1967, a widely-patronised, though unlawful alternative form of transport in the shape of the privately operated minibus. Such was the popularity of those supplementary fourteen-seater vehicles wi