History and Naming
The company began life as a coach operator, known as Bowers Coaches. It later expanded into local bus operation, particularly after the deregulation of local bus services in 1986. Throughout its history as a coach company, Bowers provided excursions from locations around its base in High Peak, and also provided coaches for school transport and other uses. The Bowers Coaches name continued to be used until some time after the Centrebus takeover. However, the new owners soon decided that coaches were no longer a viable asset, and thus their coaches were sold, and the "Coaches" was dropped from the company name. The company are still able to offer private hire, using service buses on shorter trips.
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