FOREST COACH LINES PTY LTD

Accommodation and Tourism > Tours and Sightseeing

The year 1928 saw brothers Trevor and Eric Royle migrate from their Welsh homeland to Australia. Like many newcomers to Australia, the two brothers strived for a more prosperous life in their new country.

For the first two years Trevor and Eric worked as farmhands in northern NSW. Returning to the Sydney area in 1930, they decided to buy a promising small suburban bus business from Mr E J Jones of Roseville. With this purchase the Royle brothers laid the foundations for Forest Coach Lines, now Sydney’s longest established family-owned bus company.

The decision to enter the bus industry at that time was a brave and personally challenging move. Not only was the economic depression beginning to adversely affect most businesses but the State government was preparing to introduce legislation to protect government tram and train services from private bus competition.

The passage of this legislation in October 1931 had profound consequences for many of Sydney’s private bus operators, but the Royle brothers’ concerns were somewhat alleviated when the bureaucrats deemed their two routes to be of a ‘feeder’ nature and not competitive with government-operated transport

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