Johnson’s
Coach Travel was founded in 1909 and incorporated as a
limited company in 1932. It has always been a family
owned and operated business and is based at purpose
built facilities at Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire. The
company specialises in the provision of both British and
Continental holidays together with a programme of day
tours. In recent years the Company has diversified into
bus operation and has been successful in winning a
number of contracts mainly with Warwickshire County
Council. As a bus operator Johnson’s Coaches has served
Redditch for a number of years with a Thursdays only
shoppers service from Henley in Arden and Stratford.
This service was for a number of years regularly run
using a double deck bus which was filling in between
school trips. In recent years the service is now more
normally run using one of the Company’s many Bova
coaches. On Tuesday 27th May 2003 Johnson’s took over
the operation of the bus services 178/9 from Redditch to
Birmingham via Wythall a route that Pete’s Travel had
mainly operated since October 2001. The emergency
Worcestershire County Council contract awarded to
Johnson’s does not call for low floor bus though the
Company has been using a mixture of low floor and
non-low floor vehicles.