 In the early 1900s John Pugh, son of company founder Charles Pugh and a pioneer motorist, decided that there had to be a better way of dealing with punctured tyres than having to change the tyre with the wheel still fixed to the car.In competition with Victor Riley of the Riley Cycle Company they both designed a detachable wheel locked in place by a single large nut.Pugh was granted a patent for his wheel in 1908.