The story
In the early 1900s, S Crowthers and Sons Pty Ltd established a small bus service in Thirroul eventually expanding further south to Dapto. In July 1952 Crowthers began operations in Sydney purchasing route 65 that operated between Cronulla railway station and South Cronulla from Ryder & Moore. In 1966 the service was extended to Caringbah.
In 1998, Barry and Paul Crowther purchased the company from their family.
For the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 Crowthers were contracted to manage a fleet of 126 buses and over 200 drivers Olympic sponsors.
When the Sydney Metropolitan Bus System Contracts were established in 2005, the operation area of Crowthers Bus Service belonged to part of region 11, which was shared with Maianbar Bundeena Bus Service and Tiger Tours.
In January 2009 Veolia Transport purchased the route bus operations of Crowthers with six buses.
Crowthers had also operated coaches since at least June 1981 when a new Domino Tourmaster was purchased. From 2005 until 2012, two coaches were painted in Australian Pacific Tours livery with Crowthers acting as a sub-contractor to the tourism company. In September 2023, Crowthers was rebranded Alura Coaches.
From Wikipedia’s article on Alura Coaches, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3