In keeping with the company’s aims to reintroduce discontinued tyres for motoring enthusiasts, Vintage Tyre Supplies has announced that original equipment replacement Land Rover tyres are now available in 600-16C 6pr at £129.50 and 700-16C 6pr at £135.50 (plus VAT). The Avon Traction Mileage cross-ply tyre was developed for serious off-road work and features rugged shoulder buttresses for even traction.
North Hants Tyres bills itself as Europe’s largest distributor of American and Vintage tyres and wheels. In February this year the company moved to new premises as it had out grown its old warehouse quite considerately. The new premises are located in Aldershot, Hampshire with a 25,000 square foot warehouse. North Hants offers over 15,000 tyres in stock from the earliest crossply to the latest radial and over 3,000 wheels, and every month several containers are received with new stock from the USA at competitive prices.
Resisting to the urge to make any kind of joke about T&A celebrating its 60th anniversary, next month’s magazine will feature the latest developments in the specialist vintage tyres segment. July’s edition will report on the latest product releases and take an inside look at what’s going on with some of this niche market’s key players.
Peter Harris, who operates the Snap-on Tools franchise, based in Rowlands Castle, Hants, is celebrating being named as one of the top performers in an industry worth over £9 billion a year to the UK economy after reaching the final of the 2005 BFA Franchisee of the Year Awards, backed by HSBC Bank and Express Newspapers.
Printer ink can cost as much as vintage champagne, reports New Scientist. So finding a cheap way of making it must be a great money making opportunity. Now three inventors from Derbyshire think they have found a way of doing just that. The solution? Extract the carbon from unwanted tyres to generate a cheap and plentiful supply.
The black carbon powder used in regular ink is refined from pure oil and the liquid used in cartridges is boiled down from a volume six times larger. On the other hand, millions of tyres are disposed of each year.
(Akron/Tire Review) Michelin Lifestyle Ltd. has signed a licensing deal with Coker Tire Co. for the development and marketing of Michelin-branded products, including garage accessories, apparel, personal accessories, high-end memorabilia and collectibles.
According to Michelin Lifestyle, Coker will offer these products through Coker Tire’s North American catalogue operations and online store at www.coker.com.
150 vintage vehicles from 11 countries will attempt to resuscitate the spirit of the Gordon Bennett cup 1905, with the support of Michelin and SATCAR. The event, the ancestor of today’s Grand Prix and Formula One races, will be held during the 2005 Automobile Club d’Auvergne2-5 June.
Participants will travel to Clermont-Ferrand from Germany, Austria, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Switzerland, Mexico and United States to cover the same track as a century ago, a 140 kilometre (90 mile) track at the foot of Puy-de-Dôme at the heart of the Auvergne volcano park.
The line up of cars will include the five vintage cars that actually took part in the Gordon Bennett Cup: two Napier Gordon Bennett (1903), a Mercedes 60 HP 2-Seater (1903), which entered history when Jenatzy won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1903 in Ireland, a Pope Toledo Gordon Bennett (1905), and a Panhard Levassor Z40 (1905) which will run for the first time since it was revamped.
Some people call them veteran tyres, on the continent they are called old-timer tyres, in the UK they are generally know by the more stately title of vintage tyres. Reminding owners of by-gone days is all well and good, but what role do vintage tyres play in today’s industry? Tyres & Accessories takes a look at the vintage tyre market, and some of the key players in this niche market. To download this article as a PDF file, click here.
Some people call them veteran tyres, on the continent they are called old-timer tyres, in the UK they are generally know by the more stately title of vintage tyres. Reminding the owners of by-gone days is all well and good, but what role do they play in industry today? Tyres & Accessories will take a look at the vintage tyre market, and some of the key players in this niche market.
In spring the editorial staff of NEUE REIFENZEITUNG and our sister magazine TYRES & ACCESSORIES started an in-depth look at wholesaling in the tyre business. The reason was that the function of wholesaling has changed significantly during only a few years as a bridge between industry and the retail sector – a process which is still on-going and which is still evolving. What began as a small project, like Topsy “just growed”. As a result of this we can give a basic introduction into the function of tyre wholesaling. We also noted that this market has a lot of niches with very specialised players in areas such as agricultural, industrial, motor wheel, vintage, sports, aviation or other niche tyres. So the result of our work is more than a range of company profiles but an overview of the different facets of wholesaling with only two connecting elements; all are involved with tyres and we always have to recognize that there is no manufacturer able to supply all potential retailers. The wholesaling of tyres has a very important function. And it becomes clear that the idea of some manufacturers carrying out “a little bit of dealing along the way” is today more than ever a mistake. Tyre dealing has a future, and tyre wholesaling has too.
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