A. HARTILL & SON (MOTOR CYCLES) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00526790 · ltd · incorporated 1953-12-11
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 56.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£418.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate
Sector: Real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 56.0y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 56.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
108 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £418,780
Net assets shrinking
Down £12,898 YoY
Cash YoY
+8%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£81k
↑ 7.9% YoY
Net Worth
£419k
↓ 3.0% YoY
Current Assets
£90k
↑ 7.8% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£86k£173k£259k£345k£432kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£483.5k£480.9k
Current assets£89.6k£83.1k
Cash£81.3k£75.3k
Debtors£8.3k£7.8k
Net assets£418.8k£431.7k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2025-09-01
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  4. 2025-04-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2025-03-16
    ➕
    WINKLE, Keith David appointed
    director
  6. 2025-03-16
    ➖
    HARTILL, Douglas Charles resigned
    director
  7. 2025-03-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  8. 2025-03-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  9. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-02-28
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2022-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-10-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-03-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  15. 2020-10-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-09-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-09-18
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  18. 2019-09-18
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    Charge satisfied #1
  19. 2019-02-28
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  20. 2019-02-28
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  21. 2018-02-26
    ➖
    HARTILL, Betty Evelyn resigned
    secretary
  22. 2018-02-26
    ➖
    HARTILL, Betty Evelyn resigned
    director
  23. 2015-07-23
    ➕
    HARTILL-WINKLE, Deborah appointed
    director
  24. 1970-05-20
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank LTD
  25. 1953-12-11
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As A. HARTILL & SON (MOTOR CYCLES) LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
B.E. Hartill 2009 Settlement
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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D.C. Hartill 2009 Settlement
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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A. HARTILL & SON (MOTOR CYCLES) LIMITED
This company · 00526790

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Douglas Charles Hartill-Deceased
Individual · British · DOB 01/1930 · age 96
25–50%
—25-50% shares07/03/2021
B.E. Hartill 2009 Settlement
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/12/2016
D.C. Hartill 2009 Settlement
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/12/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1953-12-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

Granville House
2 Tettenhall Road
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 4SB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-21
Last: 2026-03-07

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

HARTILL-WINKLE, Deborah→
director · ~68y · appointed 2015-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WINKLE, Keith David→
director · ~75y · appointed 2025-03-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARTILL, Betty Evelyn→
secretary · resigned 2018-02-26
Resigned
HARTILL, Betty Evelyn→
director · ~96y · resigned 2018-02-26
Resigned
HARTILL, Douglas Charles→
director · ~96y · resigned 2025-03-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Midland Bank
Midland Bank LTD
Mortgage1 property20/05/197018/09/2019

Recent filings (108 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-03
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-09-01
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-03-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-28