COLCHESTER MACHINE TOOL SOLUTIONS LTD, HX5 9DA : Companies House Number 00144979

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Shareholders' funds

£13,075,628

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1916-09-30
Employees: 34 (2025 accounts · was 42 in 2024)
Registered office: Colchester Machine Tool Solutions Lowfields Way, Lowfields Business Park, Elland, West Yorkshire, England, HX5 9DA
Postcode: HX5 9DA
Capital: 100,000 GBP
Accounts category: Full
Charges: 5 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Next due by: 2027-09-30
Financial year end: 31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2026-05-04
Next due by: 2027-05-18

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Nature of business (SIC)

28490 Manufacture of other machine tools

Officers 3 current · 23 resigned

Christopher CATTOOR Director

Appointed 2024-01-29

Sarah Shabbir HUSSAIN Secretary

Appointed 2021-11-16

Jonathan WRIGHT Director

Appointed 2021-02-10

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Group structure 4 subsidiaries

Controlled by THE 600 GROUP LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 4

£207,651 total awarded value where published.

BE24173 - Lathe Machine

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2024-08-29 £20,656
BE24175 - Manual Lathe

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2024-08-19 £49,540
BE23046 - Manual Lathe

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2023-02-27 £23,155
Contract for the Supply and Installation of Colchester Student 2500s, Clausing 2VS Mills and Clausing Ibarmia TLA25 (Floor Mount) Drill to the University of Birmingham

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM 2021-12-21 £114,300

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Contact details

Website: colchester.co.uk

Colchester Machine Tool Solutions have been providing the engineering and manufacturing industry with high quality machine tools for over 100 years.

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
600 UK LIMITED	2022-09-29
600 LATHES LIMITED	1995-04-01
600 UK LIMITED	1994-04-25
600 LATHES LIMITED	1994-03-31
T.S.HARRISON & SONS LIMITED	1992-02-03

Previous registered addresses 5

Address	Changed on
1 UNION WORKS UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF16 0HL	2019-03-05
N/A UNION STREET, HECKMONDWIKE, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF16 0HL	2015-02-17
600 HOUSE, LANDMARK COURT, REVIE ROAD, LEEDS, LS11 8JT	2008-12-09
WITAN COURT, 284 WITAN GATE, MILTON KEYNES, MK9 1EJ	1997-09-09
HYTHE END HOUSE, CHERTSEY LANE, STAINES, MIDDLESEX TW18 3EL	1994-06-17

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 12 similar companies in HX

The largest employer among its local peers (34 staff).

The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1916.

33 companies are registered at this postcode →

Competitors Halifax

2. ARCHWAY ENGINEERING (U.K.) LIMITED

£4,459,659
3. BOXFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED

£1,627,388
4. FAULKNER MOULDS LIMITED

£172,464
5. ATLAS MACHINE KNIVES LIMITED

£133,487
6. HALIFAX NUMERICAL CONTROLS LIMITED

£57,652

This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other machine tools in Halifax.

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Property in England & Wales 1 title

Leasehold: 1
Most recent registration: 2019-09-18
Where: West Yorkshire

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
YY128410	West Yorkshire	Leasehold	2019-09-18	—

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