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Christmas Deliveries: If you placed an order on or before midday on Friday 19th December for Christmas delivery it was despatched before the Royal Mail or Parcel Force deadline and therefore should be received in time for Christmas. Orders placed after midday on Friday 19th December will be delivered in the New Year.

Please Note: Our offices and factory are now closed until Monday 5th January when we will be pleased to deal with any queries that have arisen during the holiday period.

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Kettering Tyres Ltd

A Memory of Rushden.

I joined Kettering Tyres in Newton Road in the late sixties, as assistant to the late Cedric "Tiny" Guilford - "Tiny" was a larger than life character in every way - twenty-odd stone and with a personality to match.
The Socialist Minister for Transport , Barbara Castle, had just introduced a new law requiring tyres to have a minimum depth of tread - our problem then was not selling tyres but being able to get them in the first place - and every morning I would detour in from my home in Kettering to the company Head Office in Wellingborough to try and fill my elderly Hillman Husky estate car with whatever tyres were available!


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Comments & Feedback

I remember it all very well. I started in 1972 I brought one of the old Kettering branches in 1984 and am still trading today after 30 years I could rite a book on the happy memories I have ,My name is Peter Black I was on the road in the end with Barry Lindlay D Marksman ,J Tibetts Colin cooper and many more

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