Four bands·Clarendon Road
Manchester M16 0AY · registered office
Working from Clarendon Road
213 Clarendon Road is the registered office and the correspondence address. It is not a display forecourt, there is no pitch to walk onto, and nothing is kept standing there for passing trade. Every viewing is arranged for a stated vehicle at a stated time.
Address What it is, and is not
The name says Wakefield; the office is in Manchester
RCB WAKEFIELD LTD is the registered name. The registered office is 213 Clarendon Road, Manchester M16 0AY, and that address is where post arrives, where the inspection sheets are filed and where correspondence is answered. There is no second premises and the site does not imply one, so anything addressed to a Wakefield location will not reach this company.
Because the office is a correspondence address rather than a forecourt, the sequence is reversed from what a buyer may expect: the vehicle is read first, at whatever premises the inspection was carried out at, and the sheet reaches the office before a viewing is arranged. A viewing is therefore an appointment against a document, not a browse.
Viewing Arranged in writing
Arranging one, and the first ten minutes of it
Viewings are arranged by email to the corporate address in the footer. A message that can be acted on contains three things: the identification number of the vehicle, the dates and times that would suit, and the name the appointment should be made in. Without the identification number there is nothing to match against a sheet.
The appointment is confirmed in writing with a time window, the address to attend and the name on the booking. A window is a window: it is the span the vehicle and the sheet are both available in, and it is not a promise about how long anything takes.
The first ten minutes are spent on the sheet, before the bonnet is opened. The findings are read through in the order they were written, including the ones preparation did not resolve. Only after that is the vehicle started — cold, if the appointment is early enough in the day for it to still be cold.
- Bring
- Photographic identification in the name the appointment was made in. Nothing else is needed and nothing else is asked for.
- Expect to be shown
- The dated sheet, the photographs taken at the inspection, the registration certificate, and whatever service record exists — including when that is none.
- Not available on the day
- A second vehicle to compare against, and a price written on this site. Neither belongs here.
Plan Frontage and kerb
The road, the footway and where a vehicle can stand
Clarendon Road is a street of frontages with a footway between the kerb and the boundary, and the office door opens onto that footway. A vehicle cannot be presented across it, so a vehicle attending an appointment stands at the kerb and the viewing happens at the kerb.
Collection and delivery are arranged separately from the viewing, for a stated window, and the loading point is agreed in the same message rather than assumed from the address. A transporter is not brought to the office door; where one is used, the vehicle is moved to the agreed loading point and the point is written on the confirmation.
Post Reaching the office
Writing to Clarendon Road
Email to the corporate address is the route for everything: viewings, questions about a sheet, wholesale consignments and anything a buyer wants in writing afterwards. Put the identification number in the subject line for a vehicle, or the goods-in number for a consignment, because both are filed by number and neither is filed by description.
Post reaches the registered office at the address in the footer. Statutory correspondence and anything concerning the company's registered particulars should be sent there rather than emailed, and should quote the company number.
No callers without an appointment
There is nothing to see at the office between appointments: the vehicles are not there, and the sheets are not handed over at the door. A visit arranged in writing is the only visit that can be useful to either side.