HIRD LIMITED
Company number 01678881 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Hird Limited is a long-established, conservatively financed plant hire and lifting equipment specialist with net assets of £13.1m, cash of £2.68m, and low gearing, giving it a strong capacity to absorb shocks. The offsetting concern is a three-year decline in turnover and a marked slowdown in profit generation, set against a domestic construction and capex market that management itself describes as cautious. The overall risk is assessed as MEDIUM: solvency risk appears low, but earnings momentum is negative and the absence of a full balance sheet breakdown, combined with an opaque group ownership structure, leaves material questions that require further investigation before commitment.
Shareholders' funds
£13,107,076
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
What it does
The principal activities of the company in the year under review were those of access platform, crane and glass lifting equipment hire and sales, machinery moving and training providers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1982-11-17
- Employees
- 108 (2026 accounts · was 110 in 2025)
- Registered office
- 127/143 English Street, Hull, East Yorkshire, England, HU3 2BS
- Postcode
- HU3 2BS
- Capital
- 1,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 7 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-15
- Next due by
- 2027-10-29
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45190 Sale of other motor vehicles
- 77320 Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment
Officers 8 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by HIRD GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2017-11-08
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9180445 (Tier 1), registered since 2005.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- hird.co.uk
- Phone
- 01302 341 659, 01302 341659, 01302341659
Access Platform Hire & Sales, Glass Lifting Equipment, Machinery Moving, Contract Lifting, Service & Maintenance, Valla Mini Cranes, IPAF Training, PASMA Training, Hird Training
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| PETER HIRD AND SONS LIMITED | 2018-04-18 |
Previous registered addresses 9
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 127/143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU3 2BT | 2018-03-01 |
| 127/143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU2 3BT, UNITED KINGDOM | 2010-09-22 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 08/09/2009 FROM, 127/143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU3 2BT, ENGLAND | 2009-09-08 |
| 127/143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU3 2BT, ENGLAND | 2009-09-08 |
| SMAILES GOLDIE REGENTS COURT, PRINCESS STREET, HULL, HU2 8BA | 2008-09-10 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 10/09/2008 FROM, SMAILES GOLDIE REGENTS COURT, PRINCESS STREET, HULL, HU2 8BA | 2008-09-10 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 05/09/2008 FROM, 127-143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU3 2BT | 2008-09-05 |
| 127-143 ENGLISH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU3 2BT | 2008-09-05 |
| 1 ENGLISH STREET, HULL | 1996-07-18 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 20 similar companies in HU
2nd largest employer among its local peers (108 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1982.
Competitors Hull
This company ranks 1 among sale of other motor vehicles in Hull.
The class of 1982
53%
of the 12,655 companies incorporated in 1982 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 7 titles
- Leasehold
- 7
- Most recent registration
- 2024-02-26
- Where
- Surrey (4), City Of Kingston Upon Hull (2), South Yorkshire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY900903 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2024-02-26 | — |
| SY896141 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2023-06-28 | — |
| SY842453 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2017-01-17 | — |
| SYK642841 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2016-09-20 | — |
| SY794171 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2013-04-09 | — |
| HS258888 | City Of Kingston Upon Hull | Leasehold | 1996-11-28 | — |
| HS93176 | City Of Kingston Upon Hull | Leasehold | 1994-09-02 | — |
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