benz oh1830 in october 2010 founded 1932 headquarters breakwater service area geelong & region service type bus & coach operator routes 12 fleet 185 october 2015 website www.mcharrys.com.au mcharry s buslines is a family owned bus company in geelong victoria dating back to 1932 . it operates public transport bus routes in geelong and on the bellarine peninsula and the surf coast as well as school bus and charter services . the company s main depot is in breakwater and there are smaller depots in torquay ocean grove queenscliff and drysdale . there used to be a depot in portarlington but it has been replaced by the one at drysdale . contents 1 history 2 livery 3 fleet 4 references history edit the origins of mcharry s buslines date back to 1932 when john mcharry was employed at ford s geelong plant as a coach builder . he transported his own employees to the plant in his truck and it wasn t long before he was inundated with requests from other ford workers for a ride to work . the current managing director of the company also called john mcharry is the grandson of the original owner . his son ashley mcharry is the company s general manager . 1 livery edit following the inauguration of the geelong transit system gts in the early 1980s mcharry s public transport buses were obliged to be painted in the gts livery . after 2000 however the company s contract with the victorian government no longer required its gts buses to wear the system livery and so buses were progressively re painted with mcharry s own new livery . livery livery summary geelong transit system overall white with two blue horizontal stripes and the letters gts written in the middle as seen here . this livery has been phased out and all buses have been repainted in the corporate livery . corporate overall white with a red yellow and black stripe incorporating a stylised arrow head as seen here . fleet edit as at december 2015 the company s fleet consisted of 190 buses and coaches . 2 references edit the mcharry s story . mcharry s buslines . retrieved 2013 07 08 . mcharry s buslines geelong . busaustralia.com . retrieved 2014 09 28 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mcharry % 27s buslines & oldid 737042291 categories bus companies of victoria australia transport in geelong1932 establishments in australiahidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian english 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 31 august 2016 at 11 44 . 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