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Bamford BUS Company Limited

Manufacture of motor vehicles

Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Previous officers 5

  1. Axel Joachim Maschka 2025-2026 Director View profile
  2. Jean Marc Gales 2023-2025 Director View profile
  3. James Munce 2023-2026 Director View profile
  4. Jorg Matthias Waldemar Hofmann 2022-2022 Director View profile
  5. Jamie Burns 2020-2025 Director View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

2 contracts · £335,000,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • P-3370 Supply of Double Deck Diesel Buses Buyer: Translink £60,000,000 2026-08-10 Source: Find a Tender

    Translink are seeking to establish a Single Supplier Framework aimed at delivering a cost effective and agile means to supply wheelchair accessible, diesel low emission, double deck buses used for stage-carriage operations.

    Framework
  • Call off for the Supply of Buses Buyer: South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority £275,000,000 2026-07-14 Source: Find a Tender

    The tender supports the Authority's objective to deliver a modern, efficient and future-ready bus fleet that will serve South Yorkshire for the next 15 years as part of its Bus Franchising programme. Following the further competition proces…

About

What it does
Manufacture of motor vehicles
Incorporated
18/09/2019
Registered office
Oxford
Previous names
AB&C Manufacturing Limited (until 04/10/2019)

Ownership

Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.

Group

  1. Bamford BUS Company Limited is controlled by Green Investment Company ONE Limited
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-11-19 · source: Companies House PSC register
  2. Green Investment Company ONE Limited is controlled by Bamford BUS Company Holdings Limited
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-11-11 · source: Companies House PSC register
  3. Bamford BUS Company Holdings Limited is controlled by Joseph Cyril Edward Bamford
    Evidence
    ceased 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2019-09-18, ceased 2022-03-07 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Joseph Cyril Edward Bamford.

53 other companies in this group

Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Financials

Net assets
£35,292,209
Total assets
£90,142,416
Cash
£59,112,623
Employees
1,876
Turnover
£455,114,374
Profit/loss
£23,900,603

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2024-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Grants received

11 grants · £3,072,931 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £1,857,536 (6 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £1,215,395 (5 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £53,4912023-07-28
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £26,2892022-11-21
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £817,4842022-11-21
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £110,0142022-06-21
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £46,2072022-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

4 directors on the board

2.1y median 0.6y
average tenure
6.8y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (4)

0
also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Business services 41Finance 11Professional services 7Manufacturing 2Construction 1Retail and trade 1Tech and media 1Utilities 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
12214576
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Accounts next due
31/12/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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