Antique At Austin Museum
Felix Sigmund (Phil) Geiler immigrated to Canada in 1919 from Germany and settled in Dauphin, Manitoba where he established the “Northern Manitoba Motor Bus Company” in 1929 operating between Dauphin and Brandon.
Phil Geiler relocated company headquarters to Brandon, where on May 18, 1933 it became the first to transport passengers inter-provincially into Manitoba from Flemming, Saskatchewan.
On September 5, 1933, Geiler changed the name of his company to “Manitoba Motor Transit Limited”. Throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 1960s, Phil Geiler, along with his son Bill, pioneered scheduled bus service northward to the remote mining centres of The Pas, Flin Flon and Thompson.
Although a rumoured buy-out by Greyhound Lines of Canada had been circulating amongst drivers, the company was purchased by Grey Goose Bus Lines of Winnipeg in 1969.
Antique At Austin Museum
Felix Sigmund (Phil) Geiler immigrated to Canada in 1919 from Germany and settled in Dauphin, Manitoba where he established the “Northern Manitoba Motor Bus Company” in 1929 operating between Dauphin and Brandon.
Phil Geiler relocated company headquarters to Brandon, where on May 18, 1933 it became the first to transport passengers inter-provincially into Manitoba from Flemming, Saskatchewan.
On September 5, 1933, Geiler changed the name of his company to “Manitoba Motor Transit Limited”. Throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 1960s, Phil Geiler, along with his son Bill, pioneered scheduled bus service northward to the remote mining centres of The Pas, Flin Flon and Thompson.
Although a rumoured buy-out by Greyhound Lines of Canada had been circulating amongst drivers, the company was purchased by Grey Goose Bus Lines of Winnipeg in 1969.