In 1973 Ralph Curzon started Hyphen Repairs Inc. in St. Catherines Ontario.  St. Catherines was chosen due to the advantages of rent.  This one-man business grew with the word being spread by The Upper Canada Region of Rolls-Royce Owners' Club. The type of work first done tended to be large rebuilding jobs such as front end and overhauls, engine rebuilds and the like.  As time went on it was decided that the cost of the rent was not as large a factor as the type of work we were missing out on by being to far from Toronto.  So in 1975 it was decided that the company should move to Mississauga, thus being closer to Toronto and the more favourable service work.

At this location, on Woodchester Drive, the company grew with an additional staff member as soon as we opened and another after a few months.  The company continued to add customers and cars and in 1976 Tony Curzon joined the Company. Over the next fours years the company expanded to nine employees, repairing all facets of the cars.  The end of the decade also brought a down turn in the economy. The overhead the company was carrying seemed to be too large so we decided to move to reduce the expenses. This was achieved by moving away from an expensive retail area to a commercial site near the airport. This is our present location.

Over the next ten years the company expanded to carry a large inventory of Rolls-Royce Spares and to undertake a number of complete restorations.  At the end of the eighties a recession hit Ontario's economy, which lasted almost seven years. This of course devastated the company and at the end of this period the company was left with one employee and the two brothers.  In the time since 1997 to the present day, the company has recovered but the economy and market has not returned to the 1980's prosperity.

Hyphen Repairs Inc. has always supported the Upper Canada Region of the Rolls- Royce Owners' Club and in 1976 a Shadow Flying Lady mounted in a walnut base was donated to the region in the company name, to be kept by the region and the winner of the "Hyphen Rally" name would be attached to it.  This has been a continuing event for Twenty-Seven years.