Drury Tires
Phone: +64 9294 8139
Tyres Brands: Hankook, GT Radial, Cooper Tires, Yokohama, Pirelli.
Address: 1 Firth Street, Drury, Auckland.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 07:00 – 18:00, Saturday: 07:00–14:30, Sunday: Close.
About Drury Tyres
Established in 1980, Drury Tyres has grown to become the largest single car tire store in the South Auckland, New Zealand area. With the experience and market knowledge they have developed, they can provide you with excellent product knowledge and service, at a reduced cost.
If you need reasons to buy Drury tires, you should know that all prices include fitting, balancing and GST, with full warranty. They offer free puncture repairs for the first six months on all new tires. You can exchange your old tires if the warranty covers them. There is also a money-back guarantee available for the life of the tire, for manufacturing defects.
And to add to this, Drury Tyres is the only tire company in New Zealand that allows you to test your new tires for one week, and if you are not satisfied, you can exchange them, with a price that varies according to the brand you choose.
They value their customers’ time and have a vehicle registration system to control and monitor how long their work takes while they wait, and if they take too long, they will certainly compensate.
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Pirelli Tyres History
It was on January 28, 1872 when Giovanni Battista Pirelli obtained the registration of a company that began as a producer of rubber objects and has ended up being a benchmark for high-performance tires
Born on December 27, 1848 in Varenna, Giovanni Battista Pirelli was the eighth of ten children of Santino Pirelli, a baker, and Rosa Riva, although only five survived. After his initial studies, he transferred to Milan to study physics and mathematics, then to Pavia to expand them, he enlisted with Garibaldi’s troops in the War of Independence of 1866 and finally returned to Milan to obtain the title of industrial engineer, that he got with the best grades of his promotion.
That earned him a scholarship that, through Europe, allowed him to meet great companies, personalities and production methods. But above all, an element that was revolutionizing the industry: rubber, or elastic rubber. The fellowship lasted until September 1871. But Pirelli already had an idea in mind, and so, on January 28, 1872, he founded the GB Pirelli & Co., of which he was the sole managing partner, with a registered capital of 215,000 lire. His first factory, on the banks of the Sevesetto, was modest, with only a thousand square meters and just 45 workers, which in just 10 years will already be 250.
Initially with rubber tubes and tapes, but gradually expanding the business to shoe soles, raincoats or tire cables, only three years after the company was founded, half of the country’s demand for rubber objects is Pirelli. But that’s not enough. Pirelli’s mind for the future leads him to see the future in telecommunications. And it is there where from 1881 onwards it will expand its range of products, with submarine cables for telecommunications, which allowed the telegraph cables to be passed under water not only in Italy, but also in Africa or from Barcelona to Palma de Mallorca.
That prosperity also had to confront legitimate workers’ demands. That is where the first chapter of the Pirelli series begins and ends, with the strike on May 5, 1898 that resulted in the Bava Beccaris massacre, with 418 people killed and hundreds injured by police and government repression. Giovanni Battista Pirelli thinks from his factory how to improve the employment situation, which in the future will lead to a scientific organization of work, the presence of doctors and psychological tests and an improvement in working conditions. But just before, in 1901, the production of what would be the signature work and hallmark of the firm had started: automobile and motorcycle tires.
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