History Of Breakdown Recovery in Barking, Essex.
Boleyn Service Station has one of, if not, the longest uninterrupted trading histories of any London based Breakdown Recovery and Fleet Maintenance Companies.
William George Albert Smith, the founder and owner of Boleyn, discovered his aptitude for vehicle maintenance and recovery during his National Service years with the R.E.M.E (Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers) where he gained a solid background of knowledge for the ever evolving motor industry.
Bill built the business from his back garden 50 years ago in 1959 when his first job paid him 7s & 6d. We now employ over 50 staff.
Bill acquired the Boleyn Service Station in Barking in 1964. The business was originally based in Movers Lane as a mechanical workshop, with 1 employee. The garage was already on the Metropolitan Police Traffic register for Road Traffic Accident call outs. The Boleyn continued to offer this service, originally with only one breakdown recovery vehicle and 2 workshop technicians.
Due to company growth, the business moved firstly, to 89 River Road, then in 1993 to where we are today at 77 River Road. The workshop began to carry out repairs on vehicles belonging to the London Fire Brigade in the late 1970's, and a long standing working relationship has followed since. In the 1980's we were recovering, servicing and maintaining fire appliances in the London area.
Boleyn continued to work alongside municipal bodies including the police, the fire brigade and local councils aswell as local and national companies. From this type of work we gained invaluable experience in working with a wide range of municipal and commercial vehicles and coping with logistical and mechanical problems.
Looking to the future; we plan to build our own HGV MOT utility that will further enhance the services we offer our clients.
Clients requiring nationwide assistance may do so by utilising our 24 operation room and our carefully selected network of professional recovery agents.
Our most recent contracts cover Breakdown Recovery within the Olympic Construction Site and Working alongside the Highway Agency Recovering vehicles on the M25.>>> read our NEWS
The
Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators Limited (AVRO) was formed
in 1977, the idea for the trade association came through a recognition
of a need to establish a representative body to lobby government departments
and other organisations involved in the decision-making process on all
matters relating to the vehicle recovery industry and also to raise
standards in the recovery industry. irements for the MOT test. The
Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) represents the interests of
operators in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man providing
sales and services to motorists and businesses. ISO
9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems. ISO 9000
is maintained by ISO, the International Organisation for Standardization
and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies.
PAS 43 is a Publicly Available Specification. Its aim is to improve
the safety of all people present during the recovery of vehicles following
an accident or breakdown. ISO
9000 is the internationally recognised standard for an organisation's
internal Quality Management. The term 'quality' refers to all those
features of a product or service which are required by the customer.
