an online tyre retailer in the united kingdom . they were the first mobile online tyre retailer to use chip and pin mobile devices in the uk . they are members of the national tyre distributors association . 1 event mobile tyres have a head office depot in manchester a northern control centre in warrington and a southern control centre in henley on thames . between these 3 locations they operate more than 30 vans that are located strategically around the country . the vans are assigned to one of the control centres based on their location and are stocked daily via a number of key stocking points . all the vans are self sufficient mobile tyre fitting centres equipped with a compressor tyre fitting machine electronic wheel balancer several vehicle jacks and all the tools of the trade required to do the job . 2 contents 1 background 1927 2003 2 awards 3 references 4 external links background 1927 2003 edit in july 1927 the goodyear tire and rubber company established a tyre manufacturing factory in bushbury wolverhampton england . 3 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 . 4 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 . 5 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 . awards edit event mobile tyres have been honoured with several awards including the honest john outstanding achievement award which is awarded to the uk s most consistently endorsed company in the motor trade . 6 references edit national tyre distributors association . ntda.co.uk . retrieved 23 april 2012 . tools of the trade . event tyres.co.uk . retrieved 23 april 2012 . photos of the goodyear factory in wolverhampton . flickr.com . retrieved 30 april 2012 . agreement to purchase bushbury works . blackcountryhistory.org . retrieved 30 april 2012 . kwik fit acquires town country tyre service . alacrastore.com . retrieved 30 april 2012 . focus on ... event tyres . honestjohn.co.uk . retrieved 3 march 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title event mobile tyres & oldid 737597734 categories automotive companies of the united kingdomauto parts suppliers of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 september 2016 at 21 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view