The story
In July 1927 the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company established a tyre manufacturing factory in Bushbury, Wolverhampton, England. It was founded on the Bushbury Works site originally belonging to Macfarlane & Robinson Limited, manufacturers of enamel hardware. Goodyear purchased the Bushbury Works Site and associated railway sidings for 75,000 GBP freehold from Macfarlane & Robinson Limited on 11 July 1927. Tyre manufacturing at the site began by December 1927.
George Sproson, an employee at Goodyear’s Wolverhampton factory, left Goodyear in 1930. He purchased a tyre mould and started Hayson Tyre Service Limited, re-moulding tyres.
In August 1970, National Tyre Service Limited, commonly known as National Tyre, purchased Hayson Tyres from George Sproson as part of their buy-out of regional independent tyre companies to form a national network of tyre fitting centres.
In the same year, George Sproson’s son-in-law, Chris Shankland, who at the time was working with Michelin as a National Accounts Manager, began Town and Country Tyre Services with Sproson’s assistance. The company was registered as Town and Country Tyres (London) Limited, and became a successful tyre fitting company with both Chris Shankland and his son, Mark Shankland, as company directors.
Town and Country Tyres were acquired by Kwik-Fit Holdings in February 1994. After the acquisition Mark Shankland became Operations Director at Kwik-Fit Mobile, the company’s mobile tyre fitting division. There he met Gary Moloney, then Control Director at Kwik-Fit Mobile. Using their mobile tyre fitting knowledge and experience, the two of them began Event Mobile Tyres Ltd in 2003.
Event Mobile Tyres filed for administration on 11 April 2018. Administration ended in 2019 and the company ceased operations in 2022.
From Wikipedia’s article on Event Mobile Tyres, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3