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Serviceman Franchise PLC

Liquidation 41 years old · 792nd oldest of 4,506 · incorporated in the 1980s

Company number01896684
StatusLiquidation
Incorporated18/03/1985
Accounts last made up to30/06/1987
Next accounts due30/01/1989
Accounts typeACCOUNTS TYPE NOT AVAILABLE
Charges outstanding3

Registered office

UNIT2,BRITISH RAIL CAR PARK, LEIGH ON SEA, ESSEX, SS9 2ET

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Online

No website could be identified for this company.

Insolvency

Companies House publishes 2 insolvency cases for this company.

Administrative receiver appointed case 1

Receiver appointed by charge holder 11/02/1986

Appointed to this case:

  • Colin George Wiseman Insolvency practitioner 6 Raleigh House, Admirals Way, Waterside, E14 9SN Appointed 23/09/1988
  • Brian Mills Insolvency practitioner 6 Raleigh House, Admirals Way, Waterside, E14 9SN Appointed 23/09/1988

Compulsory liquidation case 2

Wound up 02/11/1988
Petition presented 25/08/1988

No practitioner is named on this case.

Case types, dates and the names of appointed practitioners as published by Companies House. An insolvency case is a matter of record and says nothing about how or why a company came to be in one.

Filing history

This company has 24 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 03/03/1988. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 08/12/1987.

Filings: officer changes5
Filings: charges4
Filings: insolvency3
Filings: address changes2
Filings: accounts2
Filings: gazette notices1

The most recent filings

Gazette notice 10/07/2018
Insolvency filing 13/11/1992
Insolvency filing 11/11/1991
Insolvency filing 01/11/1990
Legacy 22/11/1988
Legacy 17/11/1988
Legacy 15/11/1988
Legacy 18/08/1988
Legacy 28/07/1988
Legacy 24/06/1988

This is the list of documents filed, not their contents. A line saying accounts were filed records that they were filed and when; it says nothing about turnover, profit or assets, which are inside the documents themselves and are not published here. Read the filings on the Companies House record.

Who runs it

The register lists no current officers for this company.

Who controls it

The register shows no current person or entity with significant control for this company.

Charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 4 registered charges, of which 3 are not yet recorded as satisfied.

Debenture
J Clare Investments Limited
Outstanding, created 02/08/1988
Debenture
Joseph Edward Clare
Fully satisfied, created 17/03/1988
Legal charge
H & H Factors Limited
Outstanding, created 05/11/1986
Fixed and floating charge
Midland Bank PLC
Outstanding, created 11/02/1986

Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.

What it does

No standard industrial classification has been supplied for this company.

This page is compiled from the public register. Companies House does not verify the information filed with it, so treat everything here as what the company reported rather than as established fact. For filings, officers and charges, see the official Companies House record.

Registered office

No other PLC on the register gives this postcode.

On the register

  • 792nd oldest of 4,506 PLCs
  • One of the 1980s cohort
  • Liquidation

There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.

Register data as at 2026-09-01 Download the full register (CSV)