Morris Minor Owners Club

Charles Ware Morris Minor Centre Ltd Liquidators Statement, as provided to the MMOC on 09 December 2021

Mark Boughey and Mike Field of Mazars LLP have been appointed Joint Liquidators of Charles Ware Morris Minor Centre Limited (“the Company”) of 20 Clothier Road, Brislington, Bristol on 25 November 2021.

The Company has ceased to trade. However, other parts of the group continue to trade and operate from the same location.

We understand that a number of customers of the Company have vehicles on site. Please be assured these vehicles remain your property and are not considered assets in the Liquidation. You should have received an email from Shannon Devoy of the Company, to arrange collection or next steps with your vehicle. Therefore, please either reply to that email, or call the Company on 0117 3003753 to discuss your individual circumstances.

Should you need to contact Mazars LLP directly please email my colleague, Patrick.grieshaber@mazars.co.uk who will endeavour to assist.
M G Boughey – Joint Liquidator

Kind regards
Jonathan Baker
Assistant Manager | Corporate Restructuring | Advisory & Consulting
Mazars
90 Victoria Street
Bristol
BS1 6DP

Sad message to read after CW being around for so long but hopefully re-assuring for those with cars currently in their workshops.

Not sure how confident people will be buying spares off them knowing part of the business is being liquidated?

Same for the cars. How will they be able to warranty the cars and repair them with no restoration side to the business?

It saddens me that sooo much Minor experience has potentially been lost. Here's hoping that some of the staff can buy from the liquidators and rise phoenix like from the ash (framed!) to help us with our cars going forward.

Sad times.

very sad indeed, looking at companies house they had liabilities of £1m vs assets of next to nothing! Looking at the list of creditors, it's also going to do some damage to some small, but critical, morrie suppliers - Woodies is owed £7k, Newton Commercial £10, ESM over £30k, and their own parts department over £170k!

Interesting that they'd be ordering from ESM rather than use their own parts dept....

If they were ordering from ESM it’s no wonder they were always more expensive! I feel sorry for those suppliers. ESM in particular because their customer service is first class.

Some parts are ordered from elsewhere as it would be uneconomic to stock them. The restoration business has been re established and doing some really good work. My car came back after a long stay through the turmoil and the work was beautifully done. They have a long list of vehicles awaiting work and customers joining that list on a daily basis. Ken and Shannon Devoy as well as the rest of the staff, some of the old hands included, are working to bring it back to its former glory

firedrake1942 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:49 am Some parts are ordered from elsewhere as it would be uneconomic to stock them. The restoration business has been re established and doing some really good work. My car came back after a long stay through the turmoil and the work was beautifully done. They have a long list of vehicles awaiting work and customers joining that list on a daily basis. Ken and Shannon Devoy as well as the rest of the staff, some of the old hands included, are working to bring it back to its former glory

Really pleasing to hear this and that you’ve got your own car back nicely done. Hopefully they make a success of it

It's been on the club Facebook group for a few weeks (facebook.com/groups/morrisminors ) but I'm afraid I forgot to mention it here too. The parts supply element that survived the previous insolvency has now itself folded. I believe there is a further business under the same name which isn't linked to either previous failing but it's got a bit too confusing to follow now...

Admin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:31 pm It's been on the club Facebook group for a few weeks (facebook.com/groups/morrisminors ) but I'm afraid I forgot to mention it here too. The parts supply element that survived the previous insolvency has now itself folded. I believe there is a further business under the same name which isn't linked to either previous failing but it's got a bit too confusing to follow now...

Being £170k light to nextdoors can't have helped!

I hope the parts business carries on in some form in the near future. Charles Ware stocked quite a lot of parts that ESM do not and I am at a loss to identify alternative suppliers for certain bits. The Charles Ware parts website now displays "account suspended". I have asked ESM if they have any plans to stock parts that only CW sold........