Throwback Thursday: Safety tyre discount; explosion risk
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to August 1975 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history, when safer wheels could slash your motor insurance premiums and concerns were raised about foam.
14 August 1975: Safety tyre discountThe Stewart Wrightson Group offered a 15% discount on insurance premiums to motorists that fitted the Avon Safety Wheel.
The wheel fitted any make and type of
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