ADELPHI PLANT HIRE (SCOTLAND) LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC239828 · ltd · incorporated 2002-11-19

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 23.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 23.3y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 23.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

57 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	2	0

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

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2 signals 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-01-30
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accounts · AA
2025-01-31
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accounts · AA
2024-01-29
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2023-03-17
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accounts · AA
2022-01-31
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accounts · AA
2021-01-29
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accounts · AA
2019-07-17
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accounts · AA
2019-01-28
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accounts · AA
2017-12-20
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accounts · AA
2017-01-25
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accounts · AA
2016-01-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-12-09
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annual-return · AR01
2015-01-29
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accounts · AA
2014-12-11
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2013-12-10
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2009-01-08
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Charge satisfied #1
2003-01-09
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2002-11-19
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Company incorporated
As ADELPHI PLANT HIRE (SCOTLAND) LTD
2002-11-19
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ABERCROMBIE, Samuel appointed
secretary
2002-11-19
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ABERCROMBIE, Samuel appointed
director
2002-11-19
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DAVIE, James appointed
director
2002-11-19
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-11-19
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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
Director Samuel Abercrombie Individual · Scottish · DOB 09/1961 · age 65	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	19/11/2016
Mr James Davie Individual · Scottish · DOB 09/1967 · age 59	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	19/11/2016

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

Incorporated2002-11-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC77390 — Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Registered office

Unit 1

Imex Business Park

Lugar

Ayrshire,

KA18 3JG

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-03

Last: 2025-11-19

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ABERCROMBIE, Samuel→

secretary · appointed 2002-11-19

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Active

ABERCROMBIE, Samuel→

director · ~65y · appointed 2002-11-19

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Active

DAVIE, James→

director · ~59y · appointed 2002-11-19

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-11-19 · resigned 2002-11-19

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Standard security	1 property	09/01/2003	08/01/2009