John William Roberts (1898-1962) was a British businessman from Yorkshire, who was the founder of the JET brand of petrol.
[1] From the age of eleven he was working part-time in the mills.
Before the Second World War, he worked for Trent Oil Products, a chemical company in north Lincolnshire, and on Long Lane in Huddersfield.
Its first company address was 23 John William Street in Huddersfield.
When he founded JET, he lived on Vicarage Gardens in Scunthorpe.