Based at the Pier Garage in the island's capital Portree, this firm also started in the late 1920's - and after an initial period of competition before the advent of the Traffic Commissioner and road service licensing - developed a network of services on the island to compliment those of Skye Transport. For many years the telephone number was simply Portree 2.
In their advertisement in the 1946 edition of Duncan Macpherson's Vest Pocket Guide to the Isle of Skye the firm listed their routes as:
Portree to Armadale
Portree to Dunvegan
Portree to Glendale
Portree to Waternish
Portree to Kilmuir
Portree to Portnalong
As
well as summer excursions by coach, cars were available for hire, and
their garage was the Morris agent for Skye. In 1952 a weekly coach
service was introduced between Portree and Glasgow, called 'The
Islesman'.
This left the long but important Portree - Sligachan - Broadford - Armadale Pier route (with connections from Glendale and Dunvegan at Sligachan for Armadale on certain days), which connected with the ferry to Mallaig, the terminus of the rail line to Fort William and Glasgow. This went by default to Macbraynes in 1953, but the timetable was reduced and the connecting service from Dunvegan and Glendale was discontinued. After the Macbrayne takeover the service was operated from their Ardvasar garage and only ran through to Portree and back from Armadale Pier once a day. There was an additional summer only evening journey on which one had to change from a Macbrayne bus to a Skye Transport bus in Broadford to continue the journey onwards to Portree.
