Alton Cars

The company was established in 1979 when current Group Chairman Tony Parish and his business partner Alan Stephenson opened their first repair centre in Leeds, combining their first names to call it 'Alton Cars'. Having built a reputation for quality and attention to detail, Alton Cars gradually expanded its Leeds operation into two purpose-built units on Saxton Lane and by 2007, Alton Cars Leeds had again relocated to a new, ground-breaking site in the Cross Green area of the outskirts of the city centre. Further afield, the company had already begun to expand by acquiring other well established bodyshops. In 1999, Minister Coachworks joined the Alton Cars Group to become Alton Cars York. Throughout the next decade, further acquisitions saw Knaresborough Body Repairs, RC Jones Motor Bodies & Huddersfield Accident Repair Centre join under the banner of Alton Cars Harrogate, Alton Cars Barnsley & Alton Cars Huddersfield. In more recent times the group has opened purpose-built repair centre's, equipping them with state-of-the-art equipment and technology. In 2014 alone, the group opened two new repairs centres, Alton Cars Hull & Alton Cars Doncaster to give the group strategic coverage of the whole of the Yorkshire and Humberside regions.