etyres Fleet Mobile Tyres Franchise Opportunity in Battersea
"etyres" is the UK's # 1 On-Line Tyre Company,
offering on-your-driveway fitting nationwide. etyres is
the Internet trading name of Fleet Mobile Tyres, Ltd.
We have a franchise opportunity in Battersea. If you have
plenty of drive and initiative you can join our steadily
expanding team of successful Franchisees.
We offer the lowest prices on all leading brands of
tyres and batteries and the most convenient service. We
fit tyres and batteries at the customer's home or place
of work. And because our service is fully mobile, we
don't have expensive tyre depots, which means our prices
are always low.
The primary reason that our service is second to none is
that our network is made up of Franchise Partners rather
than tyre depot managers. Could you be our next
successful Partner with this franchise opportunity in
Battersea?
Fast-expanding etyres now has over 100 vans fitted with
the most up-to-date equipment required to fit tyres to
today's vehicles. The work is guaranteed and carried out
by our Franchise Partners who employ fully trained tyre
fitters. Customers can have full confidence in our
professional and efficient service because our Franchise
Partners always provide a superior service than is
available elsewhere, as you may do in Battersea.
New branches are often started as a sole trader business
with the Franchise Partner fitting tyres himself. As the
level of sales grows a trained tyre fitter is employed.
Later a second and third fitter are employed.
Alternatively the business can be operated purely as a
Management Franchise, with all the operational activity
delegated to employees. Either way, branches can be
built up to be very lucrative, with strong sales and
cashflow, as would this franchise opportunity in Battersea.
And etyres is on a fast track towards nationwide
coverage. We can already cover to more than 70% of the
UK car owning population. However we still have
franchise Territories available in key areas, including
Battersea. Full training is provided in all aspects of the
business. Head Office backup includes National Sales,
Etyres Sales, National Account authorisations, invoicing
and cash collection as well as help with local sales and
marketing, credit control and administration. For a
fuller description of the process,
click here.
If you feel that you would like to be involved as the
owner of a profitable branch of Fleet Mobile Tyres &
etyres, in this fast moving and dynamic industry, please
call 0800 028 9000, or email to
katherine@etyres.co.uk ... to find out more about
this franchise opportunity in Battersea.
More about Battersea
Battersea is an area of London lying on the south
bank of the River Thames. Vaguely triangular in shape,
its northern boundary is the Thames, as it runs first
north-east, and then east, before turning north again to
pass Westminster. Its north eastern corner is one mile
(1.6 km) due south of the Palace of Westminster; the
north western corner is demarcated by Wandsworth Bridge
and Battersea tapers south to a point roughly three
miles (5 km) from the north eastern corner and two miles
(3 km) from the north west.
The area takes its name from the old village of
Battersea, an island settlement on the Thames marked
now, especially, by St Mary's Church. William Blake was
married, and Benedict Arnold and his wife and daughter
are buried in the crypt of the church. Battersea is
mentioned in Anglo-Saxon time as 'Badric's Isle' and
later 'Patrisey'. As with many former Thames island
settlements, Battersea was reclaimed by the expedient of
draining marshland and building culverts for streams.
Before the industrial revolution, much of the area was
farmland, providing food for the City of London and
surrounding population centres; and with particular
specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill
(nowadays denoted by the road of the same name) or pig
breeding on Pig Hill (later the site of the Shaftesbury
Park Estate). Villages in the wider area - Battersea,
Tooting, Wandsworth, Balham - were isolated one from
another; and throughout the second half of the second
millennium, the wealthy built their country retreats in
Battersea and neighbouring areas.
Industry in the area was concentrated to the north west
just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the
confluence of the River Thames, and the River Wandle
which gave rise to the village of Wandsworth. Bridges
erected across the Thames encouraged growth; Putney
Bridge, a mile (1.6 km) to the west, was built in 1729,
and Battersea Bridge in the centre of the north boundary
in 1771. Inland from the river, the rural agricultural
community persisted.
In 1929, construction started on Battersea Power
Station, being completed in 1939. From the late 18th
century to comparatively recent times, Battersea, and
certainly north Battersea, was established as an
industrial area, with all of the issues associated with
pollution and poor housing affecting it.
Industry declined and moved away from the area in the
1970s, and local government sought to address chronic
post-war housing problems with large scale clearances
and the establishment of planned housing. More recently,
some decades after the end of large scale local
industry, residential overspill from fashionable
Chelsea, the borough across the Thames to the north, has
changed the character of Battersea. Factories have been
demolished and replaced with apartment buildings. Many
of the council owned properties have been sold off. Many
traditional working men's pubs have become more
fashionable bistros.
Battersea was radically altered by the coming of
railways. The London and Southampton Railway Company was
the first to drive a railway line from east to west
through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at Nine Elms at
the north west tip of the area. Over the next 22 years
five other lines were built, across which all trains
from Waterloo Station and Victoria Station ran. An
interchange station was built in 1863 towards the north
west of the area, at a junction of the railway. Taking
the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away,
the station was named Clapham Junction. The effect was
precipitate: a population of 6,000 people in 1840 was
increased to 168,000 by 1910; and save for the green
spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth
Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other
farmland was built over, with, from north to south,
industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings,
slum housing for workers, especially north of the main
east-west railway, and gradually more genteel
residential terraced housing further south.
The tradition of local government in the United Kingdom
was based on the Parish. Population growth in the 18th
century demanded new arrangements, and the Metropolitan
Borough of Battersea was created in 1899, with the
boundaries described above. It was in 1965 combined with
the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to
form the London Borough of Wandsworth. The former
Battersea Town Hall, opened in 1893, is now the
Battersea Arts Centre.
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