Some of what's come through.
Repairs, restorations and the occasional one-off. Most weeks it's the kind of work that walks in on a trailer or a flatbed. But every so often something arrives that's a story in its own right. All shaped by the same hands.
Restoration · arrived as a wreck · left in red
The Porsche 356, saved.
It arrived as a shell most workshops would have refused. Floors, sills and wings rotted through. Every bad section cut out and refabricated, the whole body taken back to bare metal, then finished in red. Saved from the grave.
Motorcycle · repair
A tank, saved.
Taken back to bare steel, new metal let in where the rot had won, seams sealed. Ready for finish. The work the workshop is best known for.
Commission · museum piece · 2008
The Cody Flyer.
Commissioned for the Cody Pavilion: a fabricated propeller and copper fuel tank for Samuel Cody's flyer. On display at Farnborough Air Sciences Museum.
Gates & fab
Wrought-iron gate, matched.
Half of an original Victorian pair survived. We fabricated the missing half to match. Same hand, same hammer marks.
Rust & welding
Sills and floors, Porsche 356.
Rot through the sills, floors and inner wings. Cut back to clean steel, new sections fabricated and welded in.
Motorcycle · restored
A trials bike, brought back.
Restored in the workshop, tank to tail. The same hands that repair the tanks bring back whole machines.
Corroded · new part made up
Austin A40, made good.
The pickup's fuel tank surround had corroded past saving. So it was cut away and a new part made up from sheet to the original profile.
Motorcycle · racer
A racer, back on song.
Tank, seat unit and exhaust all workshop-made. Built to be ridden hard, finished like it matters.
Household · saved
A Raleigh Chopper, reborn.
Frame straightened, brightwork re-chromed, rebuilt to the way its owner remembered it. No job too small.
Coachbuilding · finished
A Riley, rebodied.
Ash frame, hand-formed aluminium panels, built the way it was done the first time round. Finished and out the door.
Fabrication · aluminium
Riley TT Sprite.
Fabricated from photographs, built on the chassis. Full bodywork shaped from sheet aluminium, gas welded for a seamless finish.
Restoration · commercial
Ford Thames 300E.
A working van brought back to better than it left the factory. Bodywork, floors and brightwork, inside and out.
Commission · film props · Robin Hood (2010)
The Robin Hood cauldrons.
A whole batch of them, hand-raised and riveted for the 2010 film. Shaped over wooden bucks, the way armour was made. Screen-ready and built to take a beating.
Motorcycle · fabricated
An exhaust no one makes.
Complete systems, pipe and silencer, fabricated from scratch when the catalogues come up empty.
Motorcycle · tank repair
A Harley tank, saved.
Custom paint worth keeping, metal worth saving. The damage cut out, new steel let in and shaped to the original line. Modern bikes welcome.
Bodywork · sunroof delete
911 sunroof, deleted.
The sunroof aperture filled with a hand-formed panel, welded in and metal-finished to the roofline.
Bespoke fabrication · from a drawing
Locomotive covers, off a drawing.
A pair of engine covers for a locomotive, made from nothing but a drawing. Folded, welded and dressed by hand. If it can be drawn, it can usually be made.
Repaired · in bare steel
Re-chromed · no job too small
Monkey bike mudguard.
Split and dented. Repaired, dressed, re-chromed. No job too small.
In the workshop now · aluminium
On the bench right now.
A tank and seat unit shaped by hand in aluminium, mid-build over a tube frame. Formed on the wheel, checked by eye. This is what the workshop sounds like on a Tuesday.
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