Bristol Cars Limited

Liquidation Company no. 07649451 Incorporated May 2011 Manufacturing LE postcode area

C/O Frost Group Limited Court House, The Old Police Station, South Street, LE65 1BS

The most recent insolvency notice for Bristol Cars Limited is a Notice of intended dividend (Court), published 09 October 2026 in The London Gazette. The office holders are Jeremy Charles Frost; Stephen Patrick Jens Wadsted, appointed 03 February 2020. The case is before the High Court of Justice (case No 8224 of 2019). A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.

Last filed balance sheet

Not yet retrieved. Accounts are currently overdue at Companies House.

Insolvency notices (1)

Notice of intended dividend (Court) 09 Oct 2026

The joint liquidators intend to declare a first and final dividend to unsecured creditors of Bristol Cars Limited, with a proving deadline of 11 November 2026.

Owed money by Bristol Cars Limited?

A bad debt this size rarely stops with the company that failed. If you're a supplier or creditor left short, it's worth knowing where you rank — and checking what the shortfall does to your own cashflow.

What to do when a customer fails

Related guidance

Is your own business showing the same warning signs?

What the public record showed for this company before its insolvency notice:

Its accounts were overdue at Companies House.

Each of these is visible months before a Gazette notice. Directors who act at that stage keep far more options open, from an informal turnaround to a CVA or restructuring plan.

Manufacturing business turnaround How a turnaround works Warning signs checklist 2-minute survival check

Frequently asked questions

Is Bristol Cars Limited in liquidation?

The most recent insolvency notice for Bristol Cars Limited (company no. 07649451) is a Notice of intended dividend (Court), published 09 October 2026 in The London Gazette. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.

What were Bristol Cars Limited's last filed accounts?

Not yet retrieved for Bristol Cars Limited at Companies House.

How many insolvency notices does Bristol Cars Limited have?

Bristol Cars Limited has 1 insolvency notice recorded in The London Gazette, the most recent being a Notice of intended dividend (Court) on 09 October 2026.

About this page

Published by K2 Business Partners. Our founder has worked on the turnaround of struggling UK businesses since 1990, and K2 Partners Ltd has invested alongside company directors since 2001. The notice itself is reproduced from The London Gazette and matched to Companies House; the plain-English explanations are K2's. K2's partners include Tony Groom CTP — Certified Turnaround Professional, past President of the Turnaround Management Association UK and Turnaround Practitioner of the Year 2009 — and Mark Blayney MBA ACA, a chartered accountant specialising in the financial restructuring of SME businesses.

K2 does not act as insolvency practitioner on these cases. To make a claim, contact the office holder named in the relevant notice.

Financial figures are taken from the company's own last accounts filed at Companies House. Small and micro-entity accounts are unaudited, and for a company entering an insolvency process the most recent filing frequently predates that process by a year or more. Figures are indicative and are not a valuation. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.