In those days, the Mir company was covering the Ripoll-Puigcerdà passenger line, apart from managing the local refuse collection service and carrying out the meat transportation service for the local slaughterhouse. The statistics available for the years 1922-1923, covering carts and their drivers/owners, only include four-wheeled vehicles. Over a six-year period, the statistics available make no mention of owners' names: one year there are four of them, then just two, and only one in the sixth year; but it is not quite clear whether these numbers refer to carts or lorries. Between 1922 and 1925, Manel Mir i Prat ran the Ripoll-La Pobla de Lillet-Solsona passenger line with his company, called Transportes Garage Ripollès; and from 1926 till 1928, the same carrier was granted the passenger lines from Ripoll to Sant Joan de les Abadesses and Camprodon (operated until then by a Mr Güell, a businessman from Camprodon), Ripoll-Berga and Ripoll-Ribes de Freser.
Pursuant to a Law given in 1929 by the Central Government, three exclusive passenger lines (to be operated by one single beneficiary) were granted to the firm; but the Ripoll-Camprodon line had to be relinquished, and Messrs Mir were only allowed to retain the Ripoll-La Pobla de Lillet passenger line, with one branch route to Ribes de Freser. The business office was at 8, Llupions Square.
In 1930, Felip Mir i Sardenyons took over the management of the firm. Six years later, in July 1936, the revolutionary outbreak of the Spanish Civil War brought about the requisition of twelve of the company's vehicles by the Local Revolutionary Committee, together with the seizure of every single lorry and other automobiles in the town, in order to set up a Local Transportation Committee (collectivization). Several vehicles were lost on the Aragón front; and others became destroyed in the course of various skirmishes between reds and nationals.
After the war, just two of those units were recovered. One of them was a Ford coach, registration plate GE-4493, which had been pushed down a ravine by the reds while retreating before General Franco's rebel forces. The remains of the coach had to be taken to pieces, before it was finally retrieved from the ravine and taken to Ripoll, where it was successfully reassembled.
The second unit was a coach, too: a 28/30-seater Chevrolet, registration plate B-66119, either requisitioned or recovered on the front line by Northern Army forces and finally found in the Basque city of San Sebastián, where it was recovered by its owner and taken back to Ripoll, for extensive repairs. In order to prevent the reds from getting their hands on this Chevrolet, Felip Mir i Sardenyons had taken the brand-new coach to the garage of the Montagut Hotel, in Ribes de Freser. Upon removal of all four wheels, which were kept elsewhere in hiding, he had it covered with straw, to make things more difficult for whoever might be looking for it.
But the reds did eventually find it and, to be able to take it away, they successfully threatened Felip Mir i Sardenyons into revealing the whereabouts of the missing wheels. When the reds finally retreated, this Chevrolet coach was located in San Sebastián. The war had left its mark, too, for there was a substantial hole in the back of the vehicle, as a result of a bomb that the reds had exploded in order to destroy it. Some years later, this vehicle was extensively refurbished back in Ripoll.
Fighting hard to overcome his financial difficulties after the Civil War, Felip Mir set up a company to run the Ripoll-La Pobla de Lillet passenger line, in partnership with Antoni Camprubí and a Mr Espelt, from Campdevànol. The partnership was dissolved later on and Mr Mir became the sole owner of the business. Pursuant to a Central Government Decree given in December 1949, Felip Mir i Sardenyons was granted the right to exploit the Ripoll-La Pobla de Lillet passenger line.