BRISTOL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04225207 · ltd · incorporated 2001-05-30

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 22.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£247.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 45112

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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 22.1y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 22.1 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: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

69 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £247,925

Cash YoY

+24%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£163k

↑ 24% YoY

Net Worth

£248k

↑ 26% YoY

Current Assets

£307k

↑ 3.5% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£269.8k	£243.3k
Current assets	£307.3k	£296.8k
Cash	£163.3k	£131.5k
Net assets	£247.9k	£197.5k

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

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-11-20
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2022-12-28
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2021-12-06
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accounts · AA
2020-08-25
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2019-10-18
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2018-12-17
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2017-10-21
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2017-07-03
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2017-07-03
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2016-10-13
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accounts · AA
2016-08-24
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gazette · DISS40
2016-08-23
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gazette · GAZ1
2016-08-19
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2004-05-03
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2001-05-30
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Company incorporated
As BRISTOL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
2001-05-30
➕
MICHAEL, Tony George appointed
secretary
2001-05-30
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MICHAEL, Tony George appointed
director
2001-05-30
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RICHARDSON, Thomas appointed
director
2001-05-30
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BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-05-30
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BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-05-30
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BOURSE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2001-05-30
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BOURSE NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100

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.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Thomas Richardson Individual · British · DOB 04/1968 · age 58	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/05/2017
Mr Tony George Michael Individual · British · DOB 09/1966 · age 60	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/05/2017

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2001-05-30

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC45112 — SIC 45112

Registered office

18 Barn Owl Way

Stoke Gifford

Bristol

BS34 8RZ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-06-13

Last: 2026-05-30

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MICHAEL, Tony George→

secretary · appointed 2001-05-30

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Active

MICHAEL, Tony George→

director · ~60y · appointed 2001-05-30

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Active

RICHARDSON, Thomas→

director · ~58y · appointed 2001-05-30

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Active

BRISTOL LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-05-30 · resigned 2001-05-30

Resigned

BOURSE NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-05-30 · resigned 2001-05-30

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	03/05/2004	—

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