Rapsons Coaches covered most of the Highlands and Orkney. They were Scotland's largest independent bus company with approx 250 vehicles which employed up to 400 staff and had depots based at Inverness, Thurso, Fort William, Portree, Aviemore & Kirkwall and compromised as Rapsons Coaches, Highland Country, Orkney Coaches & Causeway Coaches as they remained a separate subsidiary to Highland. Rapsons were founded in 1945 just an Inverness coach company. Highland Scottish was sold to Rapsons in August 1991 and privatized Scottish Citylink £800k and in October 1995, the company was split in two and Highland Country Buses was bought by National Express for £1.8m. The two companies continued to exist under separate ownership until August 1998 when Rapson's bought Highland Country Buses back from