JP Exhausts was founded 35 years ago by John Parker, hence the "JP". JP Exhausts started purely on the retail side as agents for "Nocorrode","Bugle" and "Grundy", the three largest manufacturers from the early days of stainless steel exhausts - although none of them are still in business today. Bugle made their exhausts from spirally wound stainless strip (like flue lining) with expanded sections which enclosed the silencers, the whole system was extremely light and the tube section could be bent over the knee. We still see the occasional car in our works with this type of exhaust still working perfectly satisfactorily.
John Parker felt that the future of the business was at the quality end of the market and gradually managed to buy or make the conventional manufacturing plant. In the early days tubes were bent with a manual tube bender capable of 20 bends per day. Over the years we have invested in 3 automatic benders with a capability of over 500 bends per day.
