The Bedford Battery

Vic Ayres from the small beginnings of making vehicle and radio battery's took on a service agency for Exide battery's and the reconditioning of starters and dynamos. This quickly followed branching out into the supply of replacement motor parts, and this has been the history of the business to the present day an ever increasing range of replacement parts.

During the 40's and the 50's the Company principally traded from the counter in Wellington Street and also from three stock walk-in vans which travelled out every day to different parts of the County, making regular calls on all the various garages and electrical retail shops.

The third generation of the family John entered the Company in 1961. At the time the Company had one delivery van that had regular routes, visiting different parts of the county on different days. It was during the late 60's that the fleet of delivery vans started to grow and today numbers over 50.