About us
A long established family business providing an extremely high standard of personal service.
John Tyre & Sons was established just after the First World War by John Tyre Snr, although his family had been blacksmiths for many years before that.
The firm was mainly occupied with horseshoeing and repairing farm and forestry machinery at this time, but as the century moved on he found himself working on major projects such as the new hydro power station at the Tarsan Dam, using pioneering welding techniques.
By this time he had been joined by his son, also John Tyre, and the work widened to encompass Local Council, Electricity and Gas Board work. In the 1970s oil rigs were being built near Dunoon and many of their workforce worked round the clock carrying out skilled welding tasks.
The current generation
Scott Tyre is now the blacksmith overseeing and working with his staff on projects as diverse as large ornamental school gates and railings, made to a design hand drawn by the children themselves, and components for mechanical arms on a Scorpio Work Class Submarine.
Repairing farm and forestry equipment still goes on, and Guy Pate, Scott’s brother-in-law, runs the garden machinery and small plant repair workshop, the plant and tool hire section and a large showroom selling quality machines, protective clothing and accessories.