Punchbowl Bus Company is an Australian bus company operating services in Sydney Region 5, servicing the Hurstville, Roselands, Bankstown, Strathfield and surrounding suburbs. It also operates bus services in Goulburn and Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands as PBC Goulburn and PBC Crookwell. History Before 1960 Punchbowl Bus Co (PBC) started off as DeLuxe Bus Service run by PM (Pat) Geoghegan in 1943. July 1943 Route 188 Punchbowl - Mortdale transferred from Boatwright. 29 April 1946 Route 29 Peakhurst - Hurstville commenced May 1946 Route 28 Punchbowl - Hurstville transferred from Leach and Mallam 18 August 1947 route 33 Punchbowl - Hurstville commenced and route 36 Punchbowl - Mortdale split from route 188. Late 1947 DeLuxe incorporated as Punchbowl Bus Co. 30 June 1952 Routes 28 and 33 transferred to Narwee Bus Co. 1956 Geoghehan died and Miss P Fitzpatrick took over. January or February 1957 route 140 Riverwood - Lugarno separated from route 36. October 1958 All routes transferred to owners of Narwee Bus Co / GP Bus Co. GP Bus Co/Narwee Bus Co. Owned by WH Griffin, CV Griffin and FS (Fred) Pobje. GP are the initial of Griffin and Pobje. Buses owned by GP were signwritten Narwee Bus Co suggesting a close relation between these two entities. Believed to have started 30 June 1952 when routes 28 and 33 were transferred from PBC to one of these entities. 11 May 1955 Routes 4 Greenacre - Bankstown, 189 Punchbowl - Bankstown and 190 Greenacre - Punchbowl were transferred from XL Transport to GP Bus Co. October 1958 Owners of Narwee Bus Co / GP Bus Co took over PBC adopting the Punchbowl Bus Co name and livery for the full operation but using the Narwee Bus Co depot. However between 1958 and 1992 various timetables were still issued in the Narwee/GP names. Since 1960 By 1961, weekday routes 4 and 190 were combined to operate as route 4 between Bankstown and Punchbowl. Sunday route 190 trips between Punchbowl and Rookwood Cemetery finished up either at Easter or Anzac Day 1961. In 1967, routes 4 and 28 were combined into route 244, operating between Bankstown and Hurstville via Chullora, Greenacre, Punchbowl and Roselands to give residents in the Greenacre/Chullora area direct access to the new Roselands Shopping Centre. Later when Punchbowl Bus Company took over route 37 Punchbowl - Bankstown, this route was integrated with route 33 Punchbowl - Hurstville