BRYSON TRACTORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC235088 · ltd · incorporated 2002-08-08
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 23.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Last 30 days

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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Repair of machinery
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 33190SIC 33190
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 23.6y

75/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £302,604

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£1.8m£3.7m£5.5m£7.4m£9.2mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Profit before tax£302.6k—
Total assets—£1.67M
Current assets—£9.21M
Cash—£15.8k
Debtors—£2.99M
Net assets—£1.15M
Average employees41—

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-19
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  3. 2023-12-20
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  4. 2022-12-19
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-25
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    MCGREGOR, Thomas Ballantyne resigned
    director
  6. 2022-03-25
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2021-10-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-10-16
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  10. 2018-12-06
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  11. 2017-09-23
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-10-19
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  13. 2015-10-05
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  14. 2015-08-19
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-12-19
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2002-10-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2002-08-20
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    BRYSON, Agnes Hamilton appointed
    secretary
  18. 2002-08-20
    ➕
    BRYSON, Agnes Hamilton appointed
    director
  19. 2002-08-20
    ➕
    BRYSON, John appointed
    director
  20. 2002-08-20
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2002-08-20
    ➕
    MCGREGOR, Thomas Ballantyne appointed
    director
  22. 2002-08-20
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2002-08-08
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    Company incorporated
    As BRYSON TRACTORS LIMITED
  24. 2002-08-08
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2002-08-08
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

99/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BRYSON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Agnes Hamilton Bryson
Individual · British · DOB 11/1971 · age 55
25–50%
—25-50% shares08/08/2016
Mr John Bryson
Individual · British · DOB 04/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares08/08/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-08-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC33120 — Repair of machinery

Registered office

Farmhouse, Killalees Farm
Lesmahagow
Lanarkshire
ML11 0JH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-22
Last: 2025-08-08

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

BRYSON, Agnes Hamilton→
secretary · appointed 2002-08-20
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Active
BRYSON, Agnes Hamilton→
director · ~55y · appointed 2002-08-20
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Active
BRYSON, John→
director · ~62y · appointed 2002-08-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-08-08 · resigned 2002-08-20
Resigned
MCGREGOR, Thomas Ballantyne→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-08-20 · resigned 2022-03-25
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-08-08 · resigned 2002-08-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property17/10/2002—
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Recent filings (71 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-10
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-10-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-10-16