July/August 2021

We wondered if that was a deliberate choice, or luck: “We just kept saying to the landlord ‘can we have a bit more room?’” Sean replied. “We were fortunate enough that there was room to keep taking more and, renting more space.” The origins of the business were B ased in Berkshire between Reading and Wokingham in the village of Winnersh, MOT City lives up to its name; It’s a big garage. Founded in 1995 and fielding a workforce of 14 encompassing everyone from front-of-house staff to the mechanics and beyond, the business has six repair and service bays, and two MOT bays, with eight ramps in total. Alongside this, there is a tyre-fitting bay, a dedicated air-con bay set up for both the old R134-A and the new R1234-YF gas. Tech-wise, the company has a complete array of diagnostic kit, with devices from Autologic, Bosch, Snap- on and Launch. “I think we can pretty 58 AFTERMARKET JULY/AUGUST 2021 GARAGE VISIT www.aftermarketonline.net BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY Aftermarket makes its way out to Reading’s suburbs to visit a real city, MOT City, as the business celebrates its silver anniversary much cover off all makes,” said owner and founder Sean Bradbury. What’s in a name? Perhaps surprisingly, given the name, the business is not entirely focused on the MOT. Sean explained: “When we set up, 26 years ago, it was as a MOT garage. No repairs. It was just me, front-of-house and an assistant. Then, we just got constantly asked to do repairs. Next, we built a workshop and then another workshop. Then we built more offices, and then we built more workshops. We’ve just grown and grown as a company, slowly but surely over 25 years, to the point now where we are maxed-out. What’s more, this is the original site where we were 25 years ago, but we were able to just keep growing.”