ASQUITH MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04407779 · ltd · incorporated 2002-04-02
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 29100
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
84 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30

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
2
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-30
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2026-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-06-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-06-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-06-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2025-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-04-21
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-04-10
    ➖
    RHODES, Simon resigned
    secretary
  17. 2003-03-03
    ➕
    LORENZO, Begona appointed
    director
  18. 2002-04-08
    ➕
    RHODES, Simon appointed
    director
  19. 2002-04-08
    ➕
    RHODES, Simon appointed
    secretary
  20. 2002-04-08
    ➖
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2002-04-08
    ➖
    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 2002-04-02
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ASQUITH MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
  23. 2002-04-02
    ➕
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-04-02
    ➕
    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED appointed
    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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — 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 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Begona Lorenzo Montero
Individual · Spanish · DOB 02/1971 · age 55
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Simon Rhodes
Individual · British · DOB 02/1965 · age 61
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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🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 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
Incorporated2002-04-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC29100 — SIC 29100

Registered office

60 Kenilworth Avenue
London
SW19 7LW
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-16
Last: 2026-04-02

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

LORENZO, Begona→
director · ~55y · appointed 2003-03-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RHODES, Simon→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-04-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RHODES, Simon→
secretary · appointed 2002-04-08 · resigned 2014-04-10
Resigned
BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-04-02 · resigned 2002-04-08
Resigned
BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-04-02 · resigned 2002-04-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (84 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-20
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-06-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-15