page_title: Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A Johnson's Excelbus on route 22 in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The bus is an Optare Tempo, registration mark YJ57 YCL.
context_page_description: Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel is a bus and coach operator based in the Warwickshire town of Henley-in-Arden.
context_section_description: In 1909, Jack and Blanch Johnson purchased a carrier business with one carriage and two horses in Henley-in-Arden. In 1922, the first motorised bus was purchased. In the late 1970s, it began to operate coach tours, expanding with the purchase of the Fletchers Coaches business in 1989 and Arnold Shaw Coaches in 1993.
  In 2000, it diversified into bus service operations with services operated under contract to Warwickshire County Council. In January 2015, Whittles of Kidderminster was purchased from East Yorkshire Motor Services with nine coaches.
caption: Optare Tempo in Moreton-in-Marsh in 2011
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