 Jones, and his brother Joseph, founded the Corrugated Iron Company in 1857, specialising in flat or corrugated sheeting.Ironmaster Alderman John Jones served as Mayor of Wolverhampton, for three consecutive terms, 1878—79, 1879—80 and 1880—81, the second longest consecutive period to date.A former Mayor of Wolverhampton, William Highfield Jones, wrote in his book "Story of the Municipal Life of Wolverhampton" of the collapse of the market in iron during the term of office of Alderman John Jones in the late 1870s