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REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425 (England and Wales)















REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024

FOR

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024










Page

Company Information 1

Report of the Directors 2

Report of the Independent Auditors 4

Income Statement 8

Balance Sheet 9

Statement of Changes in Equity 10

Notes to the Financial Statements 11


ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED

COMPANY INFORMATION
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024







DIRECTORS: P W Wheeler
P J Wheeler
G Lawrence
G Wheeler





REGISTERED OFFICE: Blackpit Farm
Silverstone Road
Stowe
Buckingham
MK18 5LJ





REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425 (England and Wales)





AUDITORS: Ad Valorem Audit Services Limited
Chartered Certified Accountants
& Statutory Auditors
2 Manor Farm Court
Old Wolverton Road
Old Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK12 5NN

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2024.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
The principal activities of the Company are those of the hiring and sale of plant and machinery.

DIRECTORS
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from 1 January 2024 to the date of this report.

P W Wheeler
P J Wheeler

Other changes in directors holding office are as follows:

A A White - resigned 9 April 2024
G Lawrence - appointed 1 September 2024
G Wheeler - appointed 1 September 2024

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES
The directors are responsible for preparing the Report of the Directors and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

-select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
-make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS
So far as the directors are aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.

AUDITORS
The auditors, Ad Valorem Audit Services Limited, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.


ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:





P W Wheeler - Director


29 September 2025

REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF
ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED


Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Adams Cundell Engineers Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:
-give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its loss for the year then ended;
-have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
-have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information
The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Report of the Directors, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
- the information given in the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the Report of the Directors has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF
ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED


Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Directors.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
- the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Report of the Directors.

Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page two, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

In our process of identifying fraud risks we assessed events or conditions that indicate an incentive or pressure to commit fraud or provide an opportunity to commit fraud ("fraud risk factors") to determine how fraud risks are relevant to our audit. Based on the auditing standards we addressed two fraud risks that were relevant to our audit, in relation to revenue recognition and management override of controls. Based upon our analysis of fraud risk factors, we have not identified any additional fraud risks.

Our audit procedures included an evaluation of the design, implementation as well as the operating effectiveness of internal controls relevant to mitigate these risks. We also performed substantive audit procedures, including detailed testing of high risk journal entries and procedures to satisfy ourselves that revenue has been properly recognised in the financial statements in accordance with financial reporting standards and the Company's accounting policies. Through these procedures, we did not identify any material actual or suspected incidences of fraud.

REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF
ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED


We have evaluated facts and circumstances in order to assess laws and regulations relevant to the Company. We identified areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our general and sector experience, through discussion with the Directors and other management (as required by auditing standards) and discussed with the Directors and other management the policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations. We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit.

The potential effect of these laws and regulations on the financial statements varies considerably.

Firstly, the Company is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including taxation and financial reporting (including related company legislation) and we assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items.

Secondly, the Company is subject to many other laws and regulations where the consequences of non-compliance could have a material effect on amounts or disclosures in the financial statements, for instance through the imposition of fines or litigation. We identified the following areas as those most likely to have such an effect:
- Employment legislation, reflecting the Company's workforce
- Health and safety regulation, reflecting the Company's production, distribution and operating processes
- Data privacy, reflecting the Company's management of personal and corporate data
- Environmental regulation, reflecting environmental impact restrictions, waste and contamination related to the Company's distribution and operating processes.

Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these regulations to enquiry of the Directors and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. Through these procedures we did not identify any material actual or suspected non-compliance in any of the above areas.

We note that our audit is not primarily designed to detect non-compliance with laws and regulations and the Directors and other management are responsible for such internal control as the Directors and other management of the Company determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to errors or fraud, including compliance with laws and regulations. Additionally, owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF
ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED


Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.




Zubair Arshad FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of Ad Valorem Audit Services Limited
Chartered Certified Accountants
& Statutory Auditors
2 Manor Farm Court
Old Wolverton Road
Old Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK12 5NN

29 September 2025

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

INCOME STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024

2024 2023
Notes £ £

TURNOVER 4,745,351 5,749,354

Cost of sales 4,085,046 5,440,772
GROSS PROFIT 660,305 308,582

Administrative expenses 1,250,551 (221,644 )
(590,246 ) 530,226

Other operating income 300 -
OPERATING (LOSS)/PROFIT 4 (589,946 ) 530,226

Interest receivable and similar income 18,538 4,074
(571,408 ) 534,300

Interest payable and similar expenses 69,174 82,829
(LOSS)/PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION (640,582 ) 451,471

Tax on (loss)/profit (310,647 ) 113,111
(LOSS)/PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL
YEAR

(329,935

)

338,360

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

BALANCE SHEET
31 DECEMBER 2024

2024 2023
Notes £ £ £ £
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 6 6,479,490 7,329,252

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 7 384,449 176,070
Debtors 8 1,091,822 1,710,961
Cash at bank and in hand 1,299,313 1,362,246
2,775,584 3,249,277
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 9 1,655,796 1,533,200
NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,119,788 1,716,077
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

7,599,278

9,045,329

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

10

-

(813,563

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES (1,051,845 ) (1,354,398 )
NET ASSETS 6,547,433 6,877,368

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 12 602 602
Retained earnings 6,546,831 6,876,766
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 6,547,433 6,877,368

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 29 September 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:





P W Wheeler - Director


ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024

Called up
share Retained Total
capital earnings equity
£ £ £
Balance at 1 January 2023 602 6,538,406 6,539,008

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - 338,360 338,360
Balance at 31 December 2023 602 6,876,766 6,877,368

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - (329,935 ) (329,935 )
Balance at 31 December 2024 602 6,546,831 6,547,433

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Adams Cundell Engineers Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£).


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

BASIS OF PREPARING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

REVENUE
Revenue is recognised to the extent that it is probable that the economic benefits will flow to the company and the revenue can be reliably measured. Revenue is measured as the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. The following criteria must also be met before revenue is recognised:

Sale of goods

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised when all of the following conditions are satisfied:

- the company has transferred the significant risks and rewards of ownership t the buyer;
- the company retains neither continuing managerial involvement to the degree usually associated with ownership nor effective control over the goods sold;
- the amount of the revenue can be measured reliably;
- it is probable that the company will receive the consideration due under the transaction; and
- the costs incurred or to be incurred in respect of the transaction can be measured reliably.

Rendering of services

Revenue from a contract to provide services is recognised in the period in which the services are provided in accordance with the stage of completion of the contract when all of the following conditions are satisfied:

- the amount of revenue can be measured reliably;
- it is probable that the company will receive the consideration due under the contract;
- the stage of completion of the contract at the end of the reporting period can be measured reliably; and
- the costs incurred and the costs to complete the contract can be measured reliably.

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Tangible fixed assets under the cost model are stated at historical cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Historical cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to bringing the asset to the location and condition necessary for it to be capable of operating in the manner intended by management.

Depreciation is charged so as to allocate the cost of assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, using the straight line method.

Depreciation is provided on the following basis:

Plant and machinery- 10% to 20% straight line
Motor vehicles- 20% straight line
Fixtures and fittings- 25% straight line

The assets' residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in profit or loss.

Depreciation is charged to cost of sales in relation to hire assets and administrative expenses in respect of other assets in the Statement of Comprehensive Income.

STOCKS
Stocks are stated at the lower of cost or net realisable value, being the estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is based on the cost of purchase on a first in, first out basis. Work in progress and finished goods include labour and attributable overheads.

At each balance sheet date, stocks are assessed for impairment. If stock is impaired, the carrying amount is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell. The impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss.

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The company only enters into basic financial instrument transactions that result in the recognition of financial assets and liabilities like trade and other debtors and creditors, loans from banks and other third parties, loans to related parties and investments in ordinary shares.

Debt instruments (other than those wholly repayable or receivable within one year), including loans and other accounts receivable and repayable, are initially measured at present value of the future cash flows and subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Debt instruments that are payable or receivable within one year, typically trade debtors and creditors, are measured, initially, and subsequently, at the undiscounted amount of the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received. However, if the arrangements of a short term instrument constitute a financing transaction, like the payment of a trade debt deferred beyond normal business terms or in case of an out-right short term loan that is not at market rate, the financial asset or liability is measured, initially at the present value of future cash flows discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument and subsequently at amortised cost, unless it qualifies as a loan from a director in the case of a small company, or a public benefit entity concessionary loan.

Financial assets that are measured at cost and amortised cost are assessed at the end of each reporting period for objective evidence of impairment. If objective evidence of impairment is found, an impairment loss is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the Balance Sheet when there is an enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

TAXATION
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

DEFERRED TAX
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

PENSION COSTS AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate.

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

OPERATING LEASES: THE COMPANY AS LESSEE
Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

INTEREST INCOME
Interest income is recognised in profit or loss using the effective interest method.

FINANCE COSTS
Finance costs are charged to profit or loss over the term of the debt using the effective interest method so that the amount charged is at a constant rate on the carrying amount. Issue costs are initially recognised as a reduction in the proceeds of the associated capital instrument.

DEBTORS
Short-term debtors are measured at transaction price, less any impairment. Loans receivable are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are measured subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment.

CREDITORS
Short-term creditors are measured at transaction price. Other financial liabilities, including bank loans, are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are measured subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES
Provisions are made where an event has taken place that gives the company a legal or constructive obligation that probably requires settlement by a transfer of economic benefit, and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

Provisions are charged as an expense to profit or loss in the year that the company becomes aware of the obligation, and are measured at the best estimate at the balance sheet date of the expenditure required to settle the obligation, taking into account relevant risks and uncertainties.

When payments are eventually made, they are charged to the provision carried in the Balance Sheet.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS
2024 2023
£ £
Wages and salaries 1,115,542 1,148,898
Social security costs 110,206 125,723
Other pension costs 20,043 34,429
1,245,791 1,309,050

The average number of employees during the year was as follows:
2024 2023

Head office 7 9
Operations 13 17
20 26

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


4. OPERATING (LOSS)/PROFIT

The operating loss (2023 - operating profit) is stated after charging:

2024 2023
£ £
Depreciation - owned assets 1,413,552 1,517,774

5. AUDITORS' REMUNERATION

During the year, the Company obtained the following services from the Company's auditor:

2024 2023
£    £   
Fees payable to the Company's auditor for the audit of the Company's
financial statements

15,450


15,450

The Company has taken advantage of the exemption not to disclose amounts paid for non-audit services as these are disclosed in the consolidated accounts of the parent company.

6. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Plant and Other fixed Motor
machinery assets vehicles Totals
£ £ £ £
COST
At 1 January 2024 13,032,395 289,792 1,127,270 14,449,457
Additions 1,109,832 2,177 42,417 1,154,426
Disposals (2,141,793 ) - (75,655 ) (2,217,448 )
At 31 December 2024 12,000,434 291,969 1,094,032 13,386,435
DEPRECIATION
At 1 January 2024 5,939,476 236,265 944,464 7,120,205
Charge for year 1,219,376 45,226 148,950 1,413,552
Eliminated on disposal (1,585,262 ) - (41,550 ) (1,626,812 )
At 31 December 2024 5,573,590 281,491 1,051,864 6,906,945
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2024 6,426,844 10,478 42,168 6,479,490
At 31 December 2023 7,092,919 53,527 182,806 7,329,252

The net book value of assets held under finance leases or hire purchase contracts, included above, are as follows:

20242023
£   £   
Plant and machinery 1,199,1493,096,717
1,199.1493,096,717

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


7. STOCKS

20242023
£   £   
Finished goods and goods for resale 384,449176,070

There were no impairments of stocks during the year (2023 - £NIL).

8. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2024 2023
£ £
Trade debtors 752,440 895,777
Amounts owed by group undertakings 271,795 392,743
Other debtors 67,587 422,441
1,091,822 1,710,961

Amounts owed by group undertakings are unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand.

9. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2024 2023
£ £
Hire purchase contracts 1,199,149 1,036,807
Trade creditors 210,752 228,816
Amounts owed to group undertakings - 460
Taxation and social security 98,812 159,884
Other creditors 147,083 107,233
1,655,796 1,533,200

Amounts owed to group undertakings are unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand.

10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE
YEAR
2024 2023
£ £
Hire purchase contracts - 813,563

11. SECURED DEBTS

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

2024 2023
£ £
Hire purchase contracts 1,199,149 1,850,370

Hire purchase contracts are secured upon the assets to which they relate.

ADAMS CUNDELL ENGINEERS LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01122425)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024


12. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2024 2023
value: £ £
602 Ordinary £1 602 602

Ordinary shares carry an equal vote but no right to fixed income.

13. PENSION COMMITMENTS

The company operates a defined contributions pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £20,043 (2023 - £22,803). Contributions totalling £3,224 (2023 - £3,652) were payable to the fund at the Balance Sheet date and are included in creditors.

14. CONTINGENCIES AND COMMITMENTS

On 31 October 2016, the company entered into a debenture whereby HSBC hold a fixed and floating charge over the assets of the company in relation to any amounts owed to it, by the company or its parent undertakings, Adams Cundell Holdings Limited and Buckingham Plant Hire Limited.

15. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.

16. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The immediate parent company is Adams Cundell Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The ultimate parent company is Buckingham Plant Hire Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. Their registered address is Blackpit Farm, Silverstone Road, Stowe, Buckingham, MK18 5LJ. Consolidated financial statements can be obtained from this address.

P W Wheeler is considered to be the ultimate controlling party by virtue of his majority shareholding in Buckingham Plant Hire Limited.