Some interesting tyre facts:
• RW Thomson invented and patented the Pneumatic Tyre in 1845
• In Formula One, a tyre is designed to last 200km at the most.
• 60 tyres take up 1 cubic metre of landfill space
• Each year more than 40 million used tyres are removed from vehicles in the UK
• If all these tyres were placed end-to-end, the line could stretch from London to Sydney and back and there would still be spare tyres left over