MACTAGGART, SCOTT & COMPANY LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£6,263,606
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The company's principal activity during the year continued to be the design, manufacture, installation and support of hydraulic, electro-hydraulic and mechanical handling equipment for the Naval Defence Industry in both home and export defence markets.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1974-04-26
- Employees
- 415 (2025 accounts · was 388 in 2024)
- Registered office
- . Hunter Avenue, Loanhead, Scotland, EH20 9SL
- Postcode
- EH20 9SL
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-22
- Next due by
- 2026-12-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 28120 Manufacture of fluid power equipment
- 28131 Manufacture of pumps
- 28220 Manufacture of lifting and handling equipment
- 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified
Officers 10 current · 17 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by MACTAGGART SCOTT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA347525 (Tier 3), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 1
£15,000 in registered political donations since 2014.
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Better Together 2012 Ltd
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Gender pay gap
5.81%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| MACTAGGART SCOTT AND CO.LTD. P.O. BOX NO. 1, HUNTER AVENUE, LOANHEAD, MIDLOTHIAN, EH20 9SP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2015-08-15 |
| MACTAGGART SCOTT AND CO.LTD. P.O. BOX NO. 1, HUNTER AVENUE, LOANHEAD, MIDLOTHIAN, EH20 9SP, UNITED KINGDOM | 2015-08-15 |
| EGISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 04/08/2015 FROM, P.O. BOX 1, HUNTER AVENUE, LOANHEAD, MIDLOTHIAN, EH20 9SP | 2015-08-04 |
| STATION IRONWORKS, HUNTER AVENUE, LOANHEAD, MIDLOTHIAN EH20 9SP | 1991-02-26 |
| STATION IRONWORKS, HUNTER AVENUE, LOANHEAD, MIDLOTHIAN EH20 9SP | 1991-02-26 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 29 similar companies in EH — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (415 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1974.
The class of 1974
54%
of the 5,336 companies incorporated in 1974 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2026-03-02
- Price paid, where recorded
- £340,000
- Where
- Westmorland And Furness
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU55789 | Westmorland And Furness | Freehold | 2026-03-02 | £340,000 |
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