Mobile tyres fitting service in Bathgate Scotland
We offer the lowest priced tyres and a mobile tyres
fitting service for Bathgate Scotland. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Bathgate Scotland. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Bathgate Scotland
Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the
M8 motorway five miles west of Livingston. Neighbouring
Towns are Blackburn, Armadale, Fauldhouse, Whitburn,
Livingston, Stoneyburn and Linlithgow. Edinburgh Airport
is 13 miles/21 km away.
Bathgate derives its name from Batket, meaning "house in
the wood. Early signs of human activity in the area can
be seen in the nearby Bathgate hills at Cairnpapple
Hill, a historic burial site. Settlement at Bathgate
itself dates from at least the 1100s. Bathgate castle
was given to Marjorie Bruce in 1328 by her father Robert
the Bruce, but was disused by the 1400s.
Bathgate remained a small village on the route between
Edinburgh and Glasgow until the 1800s. In 1800 the
Glenmavis distillery opened, and, by the opening of
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway in 1849, local mines and
quarries were extracting coal, lime, and ironstone. In
1851 James Young discovered that mineral oil could be
extracted from coal mined at nearby Boghead and
established the first truly commercial oil-works in the
world at Bathgate.
In the mid-20th century many local industries were
closed and West Lothian was designated a 'Special
Development Area'—an area where extra financial
inducements were offered by the British Government to
assist companies wishing to relocate there. As a result
in 1961, the BMC—which consisted of the merged Austin
Motor Company in Longbridge and Birmingham and Morris
Motors in Oxford—located a new Truck & Tractor plant in
Bathgate rather than expanding Longbridge as originally
planned. The plant closed in 1986, regarded by some as
an illustration of the failure of the Special
Development Areas policy.
The world's oldest known reptile fossil, Westlothiana
lizzae (affectionately referred to Lizzie), was
discovered in East Kirkton Quarry, Bathgate in 1987; it
is now in The Museum of Scotland.
Notable Bathgate residents have included David
Tennant(born in Bathgate but raised in Paisley),Sir
James Young Simpson, the discoveror of the anesthecic
properties of Chloroform and John Newland, one of the
town's major benefactors. Newland emigrated to the West
Indies where he became a rich planter using slaves to
maintain and harvest his sugar cane crop. His
benefaction allowed the establishment of Bathgate
Academy, which was founded in 1833. He is remembered
today by a controversial annual pageant (known as the
Gala Day or Newland's day), which is held on the first
Saturday in June.
The local secondary school is Bathgate Academy. The
Bathgate primary schools are Balbardie, St Mary's,
Boghall, St Columba's and Windyknowe. A new Primary
school, Simpson Primary, will open on the site of the
British Leyland Factory in August 2006. It will serve
the new area of town called Wester Inch. The school is
named after James Young Simpson. Courtesy of
Wikimedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathgate |
