Nepal Transport Service (Nepali: नेपाल ट्रान्सपोर्ट सर्भिस) was the first, and for a time, the largest, Nepalese public bus line.[1] The company was based in the capital Kathmandu and operated from 1959 to 1966. Its head office was located at 122 Asan Tyouda Tol, Kathmandu.[2]
The company was founded by proprietor Karuna Ratna Tuladhar (1920–2008) and Lupau Ratna Tuladhar (1918–1993) of Kathmandu.[3] The brothers were former merchants who operated an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.[4][5]
Nepal Transport Service started as a trucking company in March 1959 hauling cargo between Kathmandu and the railhead of Amlekhganj near the Indian border, 190 kilometers to the south over Tribhuvan Highway.[6] It is the country's first highway which opened to jeep traffic in 1956, and was subsequently improved to handle larger vehicles.[7]