Browns Garage Showcasing P & A Wood’s attention to detail P & A Wood will soon benefit from a brand new coach workshop and showroom facility. Since the Company was established in 1967, it has continued to grow. As time passed, this growth made it necessary to move in 1988 to larger premises in the village of Great Easton, Essex. Existing buildings on the site were modified and converted into offices, parts department and coachwork facility. Additionally, a large new building was erected as an engineering workshop, specifically designed to cater for the repair and maintenance of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars. This growth has continued and the Company needs to expand the current coachwork and clean build/finishing departments. This has been required for some time due to the number of projects P&A Wood has. The Company also wanted to upgrade its facilities for more efficient dealing with modern crash repair work. The showroom is for Rolls-Royce motor cars that require a showroom fitted out as per their standards, something that was not in keeping with the current building. The workshop is on two levels, with all metal and paintwork being carried out at ground level and the clean build/finishing facility is on the first floor. The showroom will take up to six RollsRoyce cars with an office, rest room, and toilet facilities above. In the workshop there will be a spray booth with mixing room and two smart repair bays on the ground floor with a body jig, scissor lift and space for a further 12 cars. On the first floor there will be space to work on 20 cars plus a storage area. For many years, the site was a petrol station and local post office and shop. It was known as Brown’s Garage and is still referred to as that today. When the owners retired, P & A Wood purchased the site with a view to eventually developing it, but were delayed in doing so. Now, construction is well underway on the site, which is ideally situated, across from the Company’s current site, so the two
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premises will form an impressive entrance expertise that the Company has built up to the village of Great Easton. with the classic and vintage cars. The existing filling station and workshop Today, with the support of fully trained had to be demolished and the fuel tanks were and diligent staff, the Company continue removed or decommissioned prior to starting. to provide an extremely high standard After this, a mandatory archaeological dig of service for its customers, and this was required, as evidence of Middle Age will increase when the new development dwellings was expected because it is near a is complete. known site of a Motte and Bailey Castle. The Main Contractor is M G Cosgrove As well as this though, evidence was found Construction Ltd, and the Architect is BRD from Roman times which was previously Tech. Work commenced in spring 2011 and unknown in the area, and even some will be completed this Christmas. possible Bronze Age artifacts. This resulted in the dig being extended by several days. Although the showroom inside will be a modern RollsRoyce space, externally the building needed to blend in with the local built landscape so has a very traditional look to it, similar to the existing showroom building, which was completed in 1995. The Company has also entered into an agreement with the parish council to maintain the old red phone box next to the site, to complete the smart appearance of the entrance to Oliver Close, West Thurrock, the village. Grays, Essex RM20 3EE P & A Wood’s work was recognised in 2001 when the Company was appointed as ‘The Official Rolls-Royce and Bentley Heritage Dealers’ in recognition of the knowledge and
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