Ipswich Bus Service

From about 1920-1950 the Beaumont family ran a bus service in Ipswich. The Beaumont residence, office and bus garages/sheds were at the top end of Salisbury Road near Jackes Street, opposite the Ipswich Golf Links.

Through the 1930s the business was often simply referred to as Beaumont's buses, or the big yellow bus. At the end of  1933 a number of bus services were transferred to Beaumonts from J. R. Little's bus service. Little had been a pioneer of bus services in Ipswich.

In 1950 the service was experiencing mechanical & maintenance issues, and timetable difficulties. In September of that year a syndicate purchased the Ipswich Bus Service, sometimes referred to as Ipswich Bus Co.  Members of the syndicate were: P. B. Fallu (solicitor); S. Macdonald (baker of Booval); J. J. Bloomer; and Richard Beaumont.

Richard Beaumont had been proprietor of the Ipswich Bus Service from the 1930s to 1949. His brother Ron Beaumont was manager and proprietor in 1950-51. Their parents had run the business before them.

In May 1951 Ron Beaumont sold his interest in the company to Ipswich Bus Service Pty Ltd.

The Beaumont family also owned and operated buses in Maryborough (1939) and Newcastle (1951).