ron murray founded 1950s headquarters red hill service area canberra gold coast melbourne southern new south wales sydney queensland service type coach operator routes 3 destinations canberra narooma sydney wollongong miles depots 5 fleet 163 february 2016 website www.murrays.com.au murrays coaches is an australian express and coach charter company . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links 5 external links history edit bonluck jxk6137 in canberra in january 2011 bonluck jxk6127 on flinders street melbourne in october 2013 murrays was founded by bill murray in the early 1950s as a school bus operator in canberra . the operation was taken over by ron murray in 1970 by which time it was operating services to captains flat kowen forest naas tidbinbilla uriarra and williamsdale with 10 buses . murrays were operating seven school buses when the services were taken over by deane s buslines in november 1997 . 1 at some point murrays diversified into coach operation initially to the snowy mountains . by the mid 1980s murrays were operating interstate services from canberra to sydney wollongong and narooma . these services continue today . 2 in may 1979 murrays purchased sydney bus routes 6 arncliffe to earlwood and 49 carlton to rockdale . these were sold in october 1982 to brighton bus lines after the laws requiring tourist vehicle licences to be attached to route service operators were relaxed . 3 4 in late 1988 an operation commenced on the gold coast followed in 1989 by melbourne . 5 murrays expanded rapidly in the early 1990s capitalising on the growth of inbound tourism and the departure of some of its rivals . in may 1998 the koala tours business in sydney was purchased . 6 7 in may 2015 murrays commenced operating a service in queensland from miles to brisbane airport . 8 fleet edit murrays initial coach fleet was built up with ex ansett pioneer gmc pd4107s and mercedes benz o302 and o303s . in the mid 1980s murrays purchased a number of new mercedes benz volvo and austral coaches . following the collapse of deluxe coachlines and sunliner express amongst others murrays was able to renew its fleet with large numbers of near new austral denning and scania coaches . in the mid 1990s it took delivery of 120 pmc australia bodied mans and scanias . between 2008 and 2011 murrays conducted a major fleet renewal purchasing over 60 bonluck coaches . as at february 2016 the fleet consisted of 163 vehicles . 9 until the early 1990s murrays had a livery of three greens and black when a new livery of white with green signwriting was adopted . references edit murray s cease school bus runs fleetline july 1998 page 125 express services murrays deuce fleetline issue 186 january 1991 page 9 what has changed in 20 years australian bus panorama issue 14 2 december 1998 page 8 murrays coaches australian bus panorama september 1989 page 36 ownership changes fleetline july 1998 page 133 shorelink australian bus panorama august 1998 page 48 all aboard new bus for dalby dalby herald 12 may 2015 murrays coaches australian bus fleet list external links edit company website showbus gallery murrays gm pd 4107 images external links edit media related to murrays at wikimedia commons v t e australian interstate coach operators current aat kings australian pacific tours firefly express greyhound australia murrays premier motor service former ansett pioneer bus australia casino 99 deluxe coachlines intertour kirkland s omnibus service lindsay s coaches mccafferty s coaches newmans coach lines oz experience redline skennars sunliner express trans city express vip express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title murrays & oldid 726105683 categories bus companies of australiabus transport in australiabus transport in new south walesbus transport in queenslandcompanies based in canberrahidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian englishcommons category with page title same as on wikidata 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 20 june 2016 at 02 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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