Bluebird Vehicles Limited (04969581): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-07-03
- Administrators
- Howard Smith, Brian Green
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Trailertech Services Limited
- Incorporated
- 2003-11-19
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 29100 Manufacture of motor vehicles
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Weak consumer demand
- Property / lease costs
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 19 November 2003 as Trailertech Services Limited and started trading the same year The Company changed its name to Bluebird Vehicles Limited on 14 September 2009 The Company manufactured low floor, accessible mini and midi buses for mainly public sector customers, predominantly jocal authorities and healthcare trusts
The Company employed 45 members of staff, the majarity of which were made redundant upon the appointment of the Joint Administrators on 3 July 2014 The Company traded from four leasehold units at Plaxton Park, in Scarborough
2.2 Funding and financial position of the Company
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-12-23) · Companies House register