Preservation of Motorcars
Advisory Services:
The Creator spent a decade working in many large corporate organisations - Commercial Finance, Dispute Resolution, and Process implementation. Providing strong vision and understanding of Business operations across the United Kingdom.
Including RBS Insurance (reference below), PWC Price Waterhouse Coopers, and the largest privately owned Vehicle leasing company (below photo), before it was closed down in 2011.
Experienced in the Automotive Industry:
Operational and Financial behind the scenes - the day-to-day activities of storing preservation are handled by a Network of individual companies.
These have been selected and compliance tested over a period of 1-5 years.
Story - Tracker Network:
The creator had just completed his second year for a Financial Services company he created to specialise in turning around companies that were on the verge of bankruptcy (lack of cashflow) - the business was there, just in many situations internally, issues arose and were not dealt with. Left, in some cases, for many years. Obviously, it's very difficult to collect large amounts of money from long-standing clients when the fault for non-payment was due to inefficiency of the actual supplier itself.
And when they are seeking, at the same time, buyers to shift Business to new ownership, known as an acquisition, it's kind of important for them to know their Financials.
So the creator was tasked with assisting this National £120m a year turnover company in clearing up quite a bit of mess. It took him approximately 5 weeks to figure out how to do it. Then, a further 7 months passed before anything was actioned or implemented. Fire-fighting with senior management "that won't work", how do you know that", "you've been here two weeks", we've been here 10 years...". Then the senior manager ran off with this wonderful, great solution he'd figured out.
Anyway, after 5 months of not getting anywhere with it, the creator decided to go to the top floor and knock on, at that time, Fred-the-Shred's office door. He wasn't there, but his right-hand man was. So, a quick 5-minute conversation took place.
A few days later, a senior project manager arrived on the scene. Part of what happened is, the vehicles that were sold by car manufacturers in some cases, received free tracker systems with their new car purchase. Some didn't. Then some were sold in a year or three later. The Tracker company had lost track of all this, so had invoices issued here, there and everywhere. For example, claiming the manufacturers owed money for installations, etc. However, in many cases, not so. The actual customer had purchased separately.
And when vehicles were resold, the license for the tracker was to be transferred over to the new customer since it was now their car, therefore their tracking system. Of course, the transfers never took place correctly. And to add salt to the wound, thousands of these tracker subscriptions were all priced the same, mostly on direct debit. From memory, around 8500 live and active monthly accounts were investigated.
For the creator this was fairly simple to figure out.
Why is this relevant?
When the larger commercial contracts are awarded to the John Rose Group relating to Automotive, the supplier who makes contact can be confident the creator understands the operational side due to his past experiences, enabling the vision, so it can be delivered. This includes finding alternative Automotive clients.
Half a decade in the Vehicle Storage Industry has allowed the development of key skills to help determine suitable companies to benefit from such. Not all storage facilities are able to cater for the requirements needed. And not all are suitable Business people.
The creator believes in small businesses, SME's, the lifeblood of the economy.
Provides you - an Automotive company alternative ways to obtain new business, develop and grow in an ever more challenging environment. For more stories about the Creators' knowledge of National enterprises, you can click here to our secondary website.
How do you differentiate from everyone else in the Industry?
How will you create ways to make money in a, now, saturated market?
How do you plan to market your Business in 2026?
If you are a Supplier of Commercial work, we want you to know that valid lessons were learned in 2024/2025. The creator went about doing business in a certain way.
He made some mistakes, of course. However this industry was always niche. The market has always been private clientele. We were the first in our opinion to provide these commercial services within Automotive secure storage.
It's the knowledge that now assists the company going into 2026.
Without knowing how some SME's operate, he wouldn't be in a position to guide them or you during a Commercial contract.
Interestingly, even a large supplier can act unethically, damage business client relations - just so they can save themselves a little bit of money. Well, so they think until issues and problems arise further down the line.
The company focused on learning the Industry and the Great people within.