Ventura Bus Lines

Custom Coaches bodied Scania L94UB at Heatherdale in September 2009
Parent	Ventura Motors
Founded	December 1924
Headquarters	Dandenong
Locale	Melbourne
Service type	Bus & coach operator
Routes	81
Depots	Croydon Ivanhoe Monbulk Knoxfield Rosebud Lilydale Moorabbin Pakenham Hastings Oakleigh Seaford Dandenong
Fleet	863
Website	venturabus.com.au

Ventura Bus Lines is an Australian bus and coach operator in Melbourne. As a Melbourne bus company, it operates 81 bus routes under contract to the Government of Victoria.

Ventura was founded in December 1924 by Harry Cornwall, an employee of Track & Kintrack, St Kilda, but decided to form his own bus company when his employer refused to run a bus service along dirt roads through what was then Melbourne's outer east.

Cornwall began operating a bus route between Box Hill and Melbourne City Centre, and in 1930 began running buses between Box Hill and Mentone. The first depot was behind the petrol station on the corner of Station Street and Canterbury Road, in Box Hill South. The business was named after Ventura County, California where Cornwall had spent time after serving in World War I.

In 1943 the Aspendale - Mordialloc service was acquired. In the late 1940s this was extended from Mordialloc to Mentone and in 1951 from Aspendale to Chelsea. Following the opening of Chadstone Shopping Centre in 1960 services from Burwood and South Oakleigh were added.

In the 1950s and 1960s a number of operations were purchased:

In 1957 a new depot was opened on the corner of Centre and Warrigal Roads, Oakleigh. This was followed in the mid 1960s by a depot on Mahoneys Road, East Burwood to replace the original Box Hill depot. In 1969 the Mitcham routes of C Young were purchased followed in September 1970 by Boronia Bus Lines from Don Nugent with 12 routes.