BATH TAXIS LIMITED

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05431537 · ltd · incorporated 2005-04-21
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£2.20M
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 49320
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (65/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 20.4y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 20.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (1 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
118 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
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 · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,203,370

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£176k
Net Worth
£2.2m
↑ 44% YoY
Current Assets
£3.3m
↑ 50% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£665k£1.3m£2.0m£2.7m£3.3mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£2.72M£1.57M
Current assets£3.32M£2.22M
Cash£175.9k—
Debtors£2.75M—
Net assets£2.20M£1.53M

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
1
filing
  • • 1 mortgage
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 mortgage
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 mortgage
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  2. 2026-05-11
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Nucleus Cash Flow FINANCE6 Limited
  3. 2025-11-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-12-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-08-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-07-24
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    capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
    capital · SH10
  7. 2023-07-24
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  8. 2023-07-07
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  9. 2023-07-07
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  10. 2023-03-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2023-03-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2023-03-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2022-09-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-12-07
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  16. 2020-12-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2020-12-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-06-13
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    Charge satisfied #2
  20. 2017-06-13
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 2015-04-30
    ➖
    VAUGHAN, Christopher resigned
    secretary
  22. 2013-12-20
    ➕
    RIDINGS, Amanda Jayne appointed
    director
  23. 2013-12-20
    ➖
    HUNTLEY, Paul resigned
    secretary
  24. 2013-12-20
    ➕
    VAUGHAN, Christopher appointed
    secretary
  25. 2013-12-20
    ➖
    SCARAMANGA, David Julian resigned
    director
  26. 2013-11-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  27. 2013-10-27
    ➖
    VINALL, Erwin Michael resigned
    director
  28. 2011-02-14
    ➕
    HUNTLEY, Paul appointed
    secretary
  29. 2011-02-14
    ➖
    VAUGHAN, Christopher resigned
    secretary
  30. 2011-02-14
    ➕
    SCARAMANGA, David Julian appointed
    director
  31. 2009-07-01
    ➖
    SIMPSON, Peter resigned
    director
  32. 2006-01-31
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  33. 2005-07-21
    ➕
    SIMPSON, Peter appointed
    director
  34. 2005-05-01
    ➕
    VAUGHAN, Christopher appointed
    secretary
  35. 2005-04-21
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BATH TAXIS LIMITED
  36. 2005-04-21
    ➕
    L & A SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  37. 2005-04-21
    ➖
    L & A SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  38. 2005-04-21
    ➕
    VINALL, Erwin Michael appointed
    director
  39. 2005-04-21
    ➕
    L & A REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  40. 2005-04-21
    ➖
    L & A REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

78/100
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.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
David Julian Scaramanga
Individual · British · DOB 11/1978 · age 48
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Athol Administration Ltdceased 03/03/2023· 25-50% shares

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-04-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC49320 — SIC 49320

Registered office

2b Paxcroft Farm Industrial Estate
Hilperton
Trowbridge
BA14 6JB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-23
Last: 2025-10-09

Officers (1 active · 8 resigned)

RIDINGS, Amanda Jayne→
director · ~60y · appointed 2013-12-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUNTLEY, Paul→
secretary · appointed 2011-02-14 · resigned 2013-12-20
Resigned
VAUGHAN, Christopher→
secretary · appointed 2013-12-20 · resigned 2015-04-30
Resigned
VAUGHAN, Christopher→
secretary · appointed 2005-05-01 · resigned 2011-02-14
Resigned
L & A SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-04-21 · resigned 2005-04-21
Resigned
SCARAMANGA, David Julian→
director · ~48y · appointed 2011-02-14 · resigned 2013-12-20
Resigned
SIMPSON, Peter→
director · ~82y · appointed 2005-07-21 · resigned 2009-07-01
Resigned
VINALL, Erwin Michael→
director · ~63y · appointed 2005-04-21 · resigned 2013-10-27
Resigned
L & A REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-04-21 · resigned 2005-04-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Nucleus Cash Flow FINANCE6
Nucleus Cash Flow FINANCE6 Limited
A registered charge—11/05/2026—
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property27/11/201313/06/2017
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property31/01/200613/06/2017
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Recent filings (118 total)

mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-05-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-31
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2023-07-24
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-07-24
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-07-07
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-07-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-09
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-03-09