THURSTON ENGINEERING LIMITED
Company number 03676570 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Thurston Engineering Limited represents a financially stable niche engineering specialist with a 25-year trading heritage and consistently growing equity base, yet faces critical strategic inflection points around cash flow management, asset reinvestment, and market evolution. The immediate priority must be addressing the intercompany cash dynamics that have depleted liquidity to concerning levels, whilst concurrently developing a long-term strategic roadmap that transitions capabilities toward EV-adjacent services and circular economy positioning. Without deliberate action on both fronts, the company risks eroding its competitive position despite its technical strengths.
Shareholders' funds
£480,442
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-12-01
- Employees
- 9 (2025 accounts · was 7 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Hallsford Bridge Industrial Est, Stondon Road, Ongar, Essex, CM5 9RB
- Postcode
- CM5 9RB
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 1 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
- 2025-12-01
- Next due by
- 2026-12-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45200 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
Officers 5 current · 2 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by CROWNFIELD 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 — ZA300115 (Tier 1), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- thurstonengineering.co.uk
- Phone
- 01277365076, 01277362135
Thurston Engineering Limited, Ongar, Essex. Engine re-manufacturing and general engineering specialists, salvage schemes on worn components, piston liner ring bearing stockists.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CROWNFIELD HOLDINGS LIMITED | 1999-10-12 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DORIC HOUSE, 132 STATION ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON E4 6AB | 2001-02-21 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 450 similar companies in CM
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (9 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1998.
No.16 of the largest maintenance and repair of motor vehicles companies in Chelmsford →
Competitors Chelmsford
This company ranks 16 among maintenance and repair of motor vehicles in Chelmsford.
The class of 1998
57%
of the 284 companies in this sector incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.