brookvale service area sydney service type bus charter operator depots 1 fleet 14 october 2014 website www.manlycoaches.com.au manly coaches is an australian bus charter company in sydney . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links history edit on 30 october 1978 chris brownlee trading as manly transport service purchased route 135 manly wharf manly hospital north head from neil smith with four buses . on 1 july 1989 the business of cremorne bus service with route 224 cremorne point wharf cremorne junction chowder bay was purchased from eddie hayman with seven buses . 1 2 on 11 february 1990 manly commenced operating a service between sydney and armidale commenced under contract to countrylink as a replacement for the northern tablelands express with denning coaches in a joint venture with fantastic aussie tours . 1 3 in 1992 manly took over the great sights day tour operation from newmans coach lines . 4 on 23 june 1994 the great sights tourist operation was sold to the driver group manly vehicles continued to operate the great sights tour program until 12 september 1994 when clipper tours took over . an association with fantastic aussie tours saw some vehicles painted in the fantastic aussie tours livery of red and blue which was derived from that of bus australia which became the basis for the manly coaches colour scheme in the 1990s . 1 the trading name manly coaches was adopted for the charter operation in 1997 replacing the previous trading names of manly bus service and manly coach tours . route 224 was taken over by sydney buses on 3 july 1995 followed by route 135 on 19 july 1998 with manly continuing to trade as a charter operator . 5 6 on 9 june 2003 chris brownlee sold the business to geoff harper . 1 fleet edit as at october 2014 the fleet consisted of 14 ex sydney buses mercedes benz o305 buses . 7 references edit a b c d manly bus service history australian bus fleet lists the ed hayman story fleetline issue 193 august 1991 page 131 manly coach tours fleetline issue 180 july 1990 page 116 newmans coaches australian bus panorama issue 8 5 february 1993 page 45 ownership changes fleetline issue 237 july 1995 page 128 services fleetline issue 255 july 1998 page 130 manly coaches australian bus fleet lists external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manly coaches & oldid 661977126 categories bus companies of new south walesbus transport in sydneymanly new south wales navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 may 2015 at 10 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view