SPITFIRE ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD
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Executive summary
Spitfire Engineering Services Ltd is a financially robust, family-controlled agricultural machinery repair specialist operating as a niche leader in the fragmented UK SIC 33120 sector. The company has demonstrated exceptional balance sheet strengthening over the past decade, growing net assets from £7.1k to £253.6k with a strong cash position of £228.9k that places it in the upper quartile of its peer group. While the business faces structural challenges from OEM restrictions on independent repairs and key-person dependency, its conservative financial management, group backing, and strategic regional positioning provide a solid foundation for continued operation, though the flat net asset growth in 2024 suggests a potential transition to a more mature, cash-generative phase.
Shareholders' funds
£253,642
Balance sheet as at 2024-11-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of the maintenance of agricultural machinery.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2005-11-17
- Employees
- 17 (2024 accounts · was 13 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Park Farm Spratton Road, Brixworth, Northampton, England, NN6 9DS
- Postcode
- NN6 9DS
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Unaudited Abridged
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-11-30
- Next due by
- 2026-11-30
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-01
- Next due by
- 2027-03-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 33120 Repair of machinery
Officers 2 current · 3 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by SPITFIRE GROUP LTD — since 2025-11-30
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB960527 (Tier 2), registered since 2025.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| G & E MECHANICAL SERVICES LTD | 2017-12-01 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GLEBE FARM STATION ROAD, BRIXWORTH, NORTHANTS, NN6 9BP | 2016-09-29 |
| WILDERNESS FARM CLIPSTONE ROAD, KELMARSH, NORTHAMPTON, NORTHANTS, NN6 9NA, ENGLAND | 2011-06-27 |
| 43 THE ASHWAY, BRIXWORTH, NORTHAMPTON, NN6 9TZ | 2009-11-05 |
| 18 BREAKLEYS ROAD, DESBOROUGH, NORTHANTS, NN14 2PT | 2007-10-26 |
| 34 BREAKLEYS ROAD, DESBOROUGH, NN14 2PT | 2005-12-02 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 76 similar companies in NN
3rd largest employer among its local peers (17 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2005.
No.8 of the largest repair of machinery companies in Northampton →
Competitors Northampton
This company ranks 8 among repair of machinery in Northampton.
The class of 2005
34%
of the 154,486 companies incorporated in 2005 are still active today; 63% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.