THE HIMALAYA TRANSPORT SYNDICATE PRIVATE LIMITED was incorporated and registered at Lahore (now Pakistan) on November 21, 1944 under the then Indian Companies Act VJJ of 1913. The erstwhile The Royal Motors Company was the predecessor Company of this Company, who were the official carriers of the Royal India Mail Service.
The GM Family has been a major stake holder in this Company right from its Incorporation. Many other stake holders where there in the Company, including Mr. Dharam Chand Anand, founder of the large Indian Industrial House of the Anand Group. Over the period of time the GM family bought over the stakes from others of the shareholders, and today the Company has the GM Family as the overall stakeholder.
The Company was one of the pioneering Transport Companies operating a large fleet of buses and taxies plying between Kalka (Railhead) and Shimla the summer capital of India in the British times. The Royal Motor Transport Company ,the predecessor company, who were the official carriers of the Royal India Mail Service. With the Booking Agents in Gainda Mull Hem Raj, the Company had a fairly large booking set up operating from The Mall Simla, Regal Building Connaught Place New Delhi and in due course after 1957 from Chandigarh too. The operating base of the Company was Kalka, where the Company workshop and back up logistics were located.
The Company over the years has provided cars in the service of the visiting Viceroys, Heads of State, Dignitaries and Judges, including the father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Marshal Tito President of then Yugoslavia and many more.
The Company has won a number of laurels for meritorious service. During the Partition in 1947 the entire fleet and staff of Company was deployed for the transportation of the refugees both to India and from India to Pakistan. The fleet when it came back in 1948 the condition of the vehicles were not roadworthy. The Company incurred huge losses, but it provided exemplary services to our Nation. The Gainda Mull Hem Raj Group infused fresh capital, so that the Company could buy new vehicles. The Company grew to be one of major passenger transporting Companies of greater Punjab, and latter Himachal Pradesh. It was in late 1940’s or early 1950’s that the Company being the first Company to introduce Omni bus services on Shimla and Bilaspur road. The Pioneering work continued whence the Company became the first Company to introduce Diesel engines on its buses, replacing Gasoline driven engines. In 1957, it introduced the first Tata Mercedes Benz buses on the Shimla / Kalka / Kasauli / Arki routes. It still did more pioneering work by introducing the Hindustan Motors Land Master vehicles and then Ambassadors, thereby replacing the vintage vehicles of Buicks, Chevrolets and Hudsons. The Government of Punjab finally recognised the meritorious services rendered by the Company by honouring it with ‘Parman Patra’

 In 1974, the Himachal Government nationalised the operative routes only in the Shimla District of the State, and the Company was forced by the decorian enactment, to shut down its Bus operations the back bone of the Company’s operations and major profit centre. The Taxies operation continued for a while till 1981, whence the entire operation was closed. The flag ship Company was kept alive, whence the Company invested into a small fleet of trucks which  catered to the needs of the GM Group and its various associate companies. The captive operation continues. The operations have been small in turnover, but the name and the saga of this pioneering transport Company then continues to be carried forward by the GM family.