LC Vehicle Hire

Leeds Commercial Ltd or LC Vehicle Hire as it is better known today started business in 1957 as Carsapoint Ltd hiring out cars and Lambretta scooters from the premisses of the Grand Hotel garage in Harrogate and then moved to Stanningley Leeds in 1960.

In the early sixties they moved to larger premisses on Chapeltown Road in Leeds and changed the trading name to Leeds Commercial and became one of the first companies in Yorkshire to hire out commercial vehicles.

Then when North Eastern Gas Board were looking to hire a large number of vehicles in 1967 to use for converting homes to natural gas it quickly became clear that Leeds Commercial would need to look for larger premisses and so in 1969 they moved in to the current premisses at the old railway roundhouse on Wellington Road in Leeds.

The company now boasts a fleet of over 1500 vehicles and an £18 million pound a year turnover from their 5 depots but to this day it still remains a family owned business.

LC Vehicle Hire is situated in the old railway roundhouse on Wellington Road, Leeds.

The red brick, single storey roundhouse was built by Scottish railway engineer Thomas Grainger, assisted by engineer John Bourne, and was in use by 1847. The roundhouse was designed with a single entrance track with 20 stabling bays radiating around a central turntable measuring approximately 12.75 metres (42'6") in diameter.

By 1889 the size of locomotives had become substantially larger and over the years, since the North Eastern Railway moved out in 1904, there has been a variety of tenants, but since 1969 Leeds Commercial Ltd have been the custodians of this fantastic old building.

Leeds Commercial Ltd. invites the public to view the Roundhouse during National Heritage Weekend each year and this proves very popular with local historians and visitors alike.

The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed building.
   
   
 
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