£50,000 crystal-studded tin marks T-Cut milestone

AS TINS of polish go, this one is rather special. This is T-Cut’s 60th birthday present to itself and comes encrusted with tens of thousands of pounds worth of Swarovski crystals.

T-Cut says 26,000 individual jewels make up the design, which took 75 hours of work for Shirley Sinclair of specialist designer Crystallized by Request to complete.

The hyper-exclusive tin of polish is set to journey around the country to celebrate British firm T-Cut’s 60th anniversary this year. It will visit car retailers before going on permanent display at its parent company Tetrosyl Group’s HQ in Bury.

Also part of the jazzy tin’s journey will be a search to find the car most in need of some “T-Cut TLC.”

Group Chairman, Peter Schofield, said: “After 60 years and tens of millions of tins produced, my father, Clifford Schofield, who invented the formula in 1954 and took his scissors to a Tetrosyl Cutting Compound label to turn it into T-Cut, would be incredibly proud of just how well known it is today.”

“For 60 years Tetrosyl has resolutely remained a British, privately-owned company, manufacturing T-Cut and other leading car care brands such as CarPlan, Wonder Wheels, Bluecol and Carlube in Bury.

“Now it has 1,500 employees producing, distributing and retailing car care products that are exported to 76 countries all over the world.”

By Press Association reporter