Motor vehicles
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
2016
Active companies
1304
Formed in latest 12 months
224
Median active-company age
5.2 years
Revenue known
18
Importers
134
Exporters
111
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 2,016 |
| Active companies | 1,304 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 224 |
| Importers | 134 |
| Exporters | 111 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 18 known, 1286 unknown (1.4%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 13 | 32 |
| 2026-01 | 18 | 20 |
| 2026-02 | 23 | 20 |
| 2026-03 | 20 | 14 |
| 2026-04 | 14 | 19 |
| 2026-05 | 20 | 20 |
| 2026-06 | 23 | 16 |
| 2026-07 | 24 | 30 |
| 2026-08 | 13 | 18 |
| 2026-09 | 11 | 13 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 1,066 |
| Dissolved | 674 |
| Dormant | 238 |
| Liquidation | 31 |
| In Administration | 6 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - East | 127 |
| West Midlands | 125 |
| Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire | 90 |
| Inner London - West | 89 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 74 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 69 |
| Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire | 45 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 39 |
| Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 36 |
Geography coverage: 1293 known, 11 unknown (99.2%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 568 |
| 1m-15m | 134 |
| 15m-54m | 13 |
| 54m+ | 38 |
Revenue-range coverage: 753 known, 551 unknown (57.7%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 379 |
| Small | 283 |
| Medium | 4 |
| Large | 48 |
| Holding | 10 |
| Dormant | 238 |
Company-size coverage: 962 known, 342 unknown (73.8%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 242 |
| 1–9 | 411 |
| 10–49 | 30 |
| 50–249 | 11 |
| 250+ | 3 |
Employee coverage: 697 known, 607 unknown (53.5%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 223 |
| 1–3 years | 255 |
| 3–5 years | 164 |
| 5–10 years | 312 |
| 10–20 years | 202 |
| 20+ years | 148 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1304 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| 29100 | 1,304 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 47 |
| Exporter only | 24 |
| Both | 87 |
| Neither | 1,146 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 106 | £48,297,964,508 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 77 | £56,895,739,336 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 71 | £48,901,125,032 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 55 | £9,189,113,540 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 49 | £5,218,571,670 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 46 | £5,662,471,549 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 70 — Glass and Glassware | 40 | £759,063,296 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 39 | £2,568,605,985 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 37 | £6,139,385,304 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 37 | £1,728,759,946 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 102 | £32,225,986,508 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 59 | £23,979,693,309 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 59 | £16,301,217,729 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 46 | £7,724,975,665 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 44 | £1,152,645,204 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 39 | £2,200,514,206 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 40 — Rubber and rubber products | 29 | £960,395,542 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 25 | £756,224,721 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 25 | £542,772,355 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 23 | £2,890,559,354 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 69 | 1,085 | 219 | 83.2% |
| Holding company | 1 | 1,085 | 219 | 83.2% |
| Solo founder | 708 | 1,085 | 219 | 83.2% |
| Ecommerce | 11 | 107 | 1,197 | 8.2% |
| Website | 129 | 138 | 1,166 | 10.6% |
| 89 | 138 | 1,166 | 10.6% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Bamford Bus Company Limited | £455,114,374 |
| Allied Vehicles Limited | £312,751,665 |
| Auto-sleepers Group Limited | £123,841,796 |
| Mac's Transport (northern) Limited | £49,393,572 |
| Ajt Engineering Limited | £21,486,900 |
| Rml Group Limited | £12,092,354 |
| Brotherwood Automobility Limited | £10,532,075 |
| Ginetta Cars Limited | £6,804,844 |
| Wellhouse Leisure Ltd | £5,327,031 |
| Electra Commercial Vehicles Ltd | £4,402,244 |
Revenue coverage: 18 known, 1286 unknown (1.4%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Parts and accessories | 2,805 |
| Bodies, outfitting | 1,006 |
| Other: shopping carts, donkey-carts etc | 976 |
| Electrical and electronic equipment | 631 |
| Bicycles and invalid carriages | 373 |
| Trailers & semi-trailers | 320 |
| Caravans | 319 |
| Motorcycles | 190 |
| Military | 40 |
SIC classification
SIC 29100 — Manufacture of motor vehicles
Includes
manufacture of passenger cars, manufacture of commercial vehicles: vans, lorries, on-road tractor units for semi-trailers etc., manufacture of buses, trolley-buses and coaches, manufacture of motor vehicle engines, manufacture of chassis for motor vehicles, manufacture of other motor vehicles:, snowmobiles, golf carts, amphibious vehicles, fire engines, street sweepers, travelling libraries, armoured cars etc., concrete-mixer lorries, ATVs, go-carts and similar including race cars, factory rebuilding of motor vehicle engines
Excludes
manufacture of electric motors (except starting motors), see ##27.11, manufacture of lighting equipment for motor vehicles, see ##27.40, manufacture of pistons, piston rings and carburettors, see ##28.11, manufacture of agricultural tractors, see ##28.30, manufacture of tractors used in construction or mining, see ##28.92, manufacture of off-road dumping trucks, see ##28.92, manufacture of bodies for motor vehicles, see ##29.20, manufacture of electrical parts for motor vehicles, see ##29.31, manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles, see ##29.32, manufacture of tanks and other military fighting vehicles, see ##30.40, maintenance, and repair and alteration of motor vehicles, see ##45.20