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Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses. The first was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners.
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Cobb & Co was a coaching company that connected the bush settlements of Australia from the 1850s to the 1920s. Their network of routes crisscrossed the eastern states of Australia, from North Queensland to Melbourne and across to Adelaide. They also ran coaches in Western Australia.
Oct 18, 2011 · The ‘Cobb’ of Cobb & Co. was Freeman Cobb, a bright young American lad from Brewster, Massachusetts. In 1853, aged 23, he established Cobb & Co. in Victoria to convey mail and passengers between the port of Melbourne, and the Victorian goldfields.
Jan 1, 2016 · In its hey-day, Cobb & Co. coaches provided a vital transportation link between regional towns, carrying passengers and the mail. Cobb & Co. was founded in 1853 and was well established in Victoria and New South Wales before the decision was made to extend to Queensland in 1865.
Following the discovery of gold in Gabriel's Gully in Otago during 1861, the first Cobb & Co. coach began operating in New Zealand on 11 October 1861. Proprietor was American Charles Carlos Cole who had been operating a Cobb & Co. coach service to Ballarat for the Victorian goldfields since 1853.
The company started running coaches in Queensland in January 1866, although Cobb & Co had been on the tracks of Victoria since 1854, in New South Wales since 1862, and even in New Zealand since 1861. Cobb & Co was the biggest coaching company in Australia.
Cobb & Co was set up in Melbourne, Victoria in 1853 by a small group of immigrant Americans – Freeman Cobb, John Murray Peck, John B Lamber and James Swanton – and originally was called the American Telegraph Line of Coaches.
