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About Us
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| Eastern Tire Service began in 1946, here in Rockland, owned and operated by Jim Miller and Roland Ware. The business was then acquired by Maritime Energy. While it was owned by Maritime, our grandfather, Maynard Linscott, managed the tire company. |
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It was through our grandfather that we have come to grow up in the business. Eastern Tire has provided for our extended family since 1946. Over the years the company has employed fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, uncles, and many cousins. . |
| Not only have we served the community of Knox county for all these years, the business has provided employment and security for our family. In 1978, our father, grandfather and uncle acquired Eastern Tire Service from Maritime Energy. Throughout high school, we worked and learned about quality product, value, and most important ....SERVICE |
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It has always been stressed to us that people can buy tires and have their vehicle repaired anywhere, but quiality service and value are what bring customers back time after time. Our grandfather and uncle retired in the mid 1980's.
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| Since 1989, our father and I have continued to build upon a strong foundation of a quality service, fair pricing and product lines in tires and repair parts that give our customers the best combination of cost and long life. In 2001 my brother Aaron joined us full time. He too had grown up in and around the "shop".Like me, he spent after school hours, weekends and vacations working here and learning the basics he would have to know to continue what had quickly become a tradition; serving the automotive needs of generation after generation of our friends and neighbors. |
| That service to generations of customers is one thing that we are most proud of.Recently a sixteen year old boy came in with his grandfather, and I suddenly realized that our company has been servicing that family's automotive needs for four generations. |
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His great grand parents, grand parents, mother, and father are all still valued customers. His sisters and he are now driving, making them the fourth generation which we have had the privelege to know.That in itself is "family." Our father has decided to retire while he still has his health and is young enough to do all those things he has planned. |
| He has worked diligently to instill in us the components of success. "We can do it", "We'll try", We'll do our best", never saying "No", These are thoughts that we have grown up with, both at home and in our business. |
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They are planted quite deep, and have unknowingly become phrases that we find ourselves using and believing in every day. Our father leaves us with a great gift, and a wonderful opportunity to continue a tradition of service to our community.My brother and I are comfortable in our ability to carry such a tradition forward, as our grandfather and father have so capably done.
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