G & P Mechanical & Structural Engineering Ltd (04421104): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2025-11-21
- Administrators
- Neil Charles Money
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Formerly
- G & P Machine Shop Limited
- Incorporated
- 2002-04-19
- Location
- Queenborough, Sheerness
- Industry
- 25620 Machining
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Weak consumer demand
- Energy costs
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Sustained trading losses
- Parent or group failure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was founded by Gerald Lawson in 1980 operating as a scle mobile welder service with a single vehicle. The Company was known as G & P Machine Shop Limited until 11 November 2016 when it changed to its current name. Over the past four decades the Company has rebranded and grown significantly, now operating from its current trading premises with a fully equipped facility of circa 21,000 sa. ft on approximately 1.2 acres of land. The business was incorporated into a limited company on 19 April 2002.
The Company provides a range of services and capabilities in light and heavy fabrication, with a large heavy machine shop containing vertical and horizontal boring machines, mechanical services, site work and maintenance.
The Company has a strong reputation in the industry for its excellent reactive approach, reliability, technical knowledge and quality and has often successfully undertaken numerous large and complex projects over a 20 plus year trading history. Key clients of the Company include The Environment Agency, Transport for London, London’ Royal Docks and His Majesty's Prison Service, with the Company providing essential maintenance services across the UK’s prison landscape.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2026-01-09) · Companies House register