Back in 1942, Dick Rowe used a car running on charcoal to pick up people from a Western Sydney train station and transport them around. Eighty years later, his grandson now runs the transport business he started during the dirt roads and petrol rations of the second World War.
It’s hard to believe how far Busways has come since such humble beginnings. Dick, affectionately known as Pop to fellow family and Busways fraternity, kickstarted a crazy chain of events that resulted in a thriving family operator when he bought a car in his teen years while living on his parents’ Western Sydney dairy farm. Bought in the throes of the second World War, fuel rations meant Pop had to attach a gas producer to the side of the car and make the car run on
