The bus company RE Guy and Brothers', Pentre Broughton, Wrexham, was founded in about 1918 by Robert Edwin Guy, writes his great nephew Chris Myers.
'Robert Edwin', as he was known, started the business with horse-drawn vehicles but these were eventually replaced by motor vehicles, first motor cars, then motor buses.
The first bus that he bought was an eight-seater Chevrollete which he named 'Baby'. This was later joined by two Garford Motor company 22-seater charabancs with canvas tops. These buses were named 'Bobby' and 'Polly'. My mother remembers him calling them these names fondly. The buses were grey in colour.
In the 1920s business was at its peak and RE Guy and Brothers had a total of nine, mainly Dodge, buses. Most were dark blue in colour, some red. RE Guy's bus depot was at the top of Quarry Road, near the junction at High Street, Pentre Broughton, not far from the White Hart public house.
The company ran services between Wrexham and Pentre Broughton and Wrexham and Brymbo and also ran trips to Rhyl. It was taken over between 1930 and 1935 by either Crosville or the Western Transport Company.
Robert Edwin Guy was also a councillor for Wrexham Rural District Council and Denbighshire County Council. My grandfather, Herb Guy, was one of the 'Brothers'. 
Can you help?
The author, Chris Myers is hoping people can get in touch via his website to help him write a local history to the community of Broughton.
Website: www.chris-myers.co.uk
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Adam Gardner, Wrexham
Chris I wonder if you have any infomation about Thomas Brothers, the coachbuilders from Wrexham, as I am trying to trace some of my family and my grandmother's father was one of the Thomas brothers. Thanks.
Mon Sep 1 08:56:40 2008
Peter Parry from Eastling, Kent.
Does anyone remember Wrexham Bedford OB buses in cream & maroon livery from the 1940s & 1950s?
Thu May 15 09:44:43 2008
Michael Owen from Manchester
For many years I've been interested in bus service operators in North Wales, so this article is very interesting to me. I seem to have been more successful in discovering information about firms along the coast than in Wrexham, though, and it was only about three years ago that I first heard about Guys Buses. Did they issue tickets, or was fare collection a matter of cash-in-cap? Do any tickets still exist? Guys Buses illustrates an opinion I've had for many years, which is that Crosville's history is quite well documented, but Western Transport, and the firms it took over - or ran off the road - is not. There are undoubtedly other pioneer bus operators in North Wales who flourished - and then vanished - long before Crosville's appearance. I'm not detracting from the interest in Guys Buses to try to broaden the appeal into discovery of details about any other bus operator who flourished in the 'twenties and 'thirties, for the sake of posterity. Pentre Broughton is at the top of a steep hill, so those buses must have had a hard life. Their petrol consumption (diesel engines were in the future) must have been fearsome, and the engine lives quite short, hence the experience of the mechanics, who were the unsung heroes of these firms.
Fri Mar 30 07:44:22 2007
Chris Myers, Brynteg, Wrexham
My mother has told me that my grandfather Herb (one of the brothers) went on to work for the company that took over Guy's. They were all good mechanics and there were plans to start a garage but nothing came to fruition. They could strip and put back together a Morris Minor with ease! We are trying to find more photos of Guy's, they are probably in the attic. I have put a page on my website about Guy's. When I get more information/and photos, I will include them there.
Mon Mar 19 09:23:05 2007
Ken Swallow, Liverpool
As a transport researcher I was interested in your family link - tell us more! The Guy business was taken over by Western Transport - probably in 1930. Certainly it was before road service licensing came into effect in 1931.
Thu Mar 15 12:34:33 2007
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