TOMMY ROBB MOTORCYCLES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01347054 · ltd · incorporated 1978-01-09
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 36.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45310
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 99999SIC 99999
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 36.5y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile
address, 2 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
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
100 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees00

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  2. 2024-09-27
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  3. 2023-09-28
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  4. 2022-09-30
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  5. 2021-10-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  6. 2021-01-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  7. 2019-10-05
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  8. 2018-10-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  9. 2017-09-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-10-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2015-11-27
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  12. 2015-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2014-10-29
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2014-10-02
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2013-10-24
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2007-03-15
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    BENNETT, Neil Stanley appointed
    secretary
  17. 2007-03-15
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    ASHURST, Ian David resigned
    secretary
  18. 2000-10-27
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    ASHURST, Ian David appointed
    secretary
  19. 2000-10-27
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    OVENS, Graham John resigned
    secretary
  20. 1999-03-01
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    FOWLER, Lionel David appointed
    director
  21. 1999-03-01
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    FOWLER, Stephanie Lyn appointed
    director
  22. 1999-03-01
    ➕
    OVENS, Graham John appointed
    secretary
  23. 1999-03-01
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    ROBB, Irene Joan resigned
    secretary
  24. 1999-03-01
    ➖
    ROBB, Irene Joan resigned
    director
  25. 1999-03-01
    ➖
    ROBB, Thomas Holmes resigned
    director
  26. 1989-11-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  27. 1978-01-09
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    Company incorporated
    As TOMMY ROBB MOTORCYCLES LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 48 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.

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Fowlers Of Bristol Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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St James Parade(107) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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TOMMY ROBB MOTORCYCLES LIMITED
This company · 01347054

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

Shareholders & ownership

4 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75% · fragmented
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Fowlers Of Bristol Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016
St James Parade(107) Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016
Stephanie Lynn Fowler
Individual · English · DOB 07/1947 · age 79
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Doctor Gillian Helen Johnson
Individual · English · DOB 11/1948 · age 78
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1978-01-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45310 — SIC 45310

Registered office

2-12 Bath Road
Bristol
BS4 3DR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-29
Last: 2025-10-15

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

BENNETT, Neil Stanley→
secretary · appointed 2007-03-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FOWLER, Lionel David→
director · ~80y · appointed 1999-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FOWLER, Stephanie Lyn→
director · ~79y · appointed 1999-03-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ASHURST, Ian David→
secretary · appointed 2000-10-27 · resigned 2007-03-15
Resigned
OVENS, Graham John→
secretary · appointed 1999-03-01 · resigned 2000-10-27
Resigned
ROBB, Irene Joan→
secretary · resigned 1999-03-01
Resigned
ROBB, Irene Joan→
director · ~80y · resigned 1999-03-01
Resigned
ROBB, Thomas Holmes→
director · ~92y · resigned 1999-03-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Fixed and floating charge1 property15/11/1989—
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Recent filings (100 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-01-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-10-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-11-15