03.09.2021

Morris Leslie acquires Selwood Plant Hire

UK rental company Morris Leslie Plant Hire has acquired the assets and business of Selwood’s equipment rental operation – Selwood Plant Hire. The acquisition includes five locations: Birmingham, Bournemouth, Avonmouth/Bristol, Exeter and Southampton.

All Selwood staff associated with the equipment rental business have been offered the chance to transfer to the Morris Leslie, with business as usual apart the name over the door.

A statement from Morris Leslie said: “From the close of business on 1st September 2021, Morris Leslie Plant Hire has acquired the assets and business of Selwood’s Plant Hire Division. All staff will be transferring across to the Morris Leslie Plant Hire business so customers will continue to receive the same high level, top quality service as always from the Selwood team. The team are available to reach on the same contact numbers as before.”
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This latest addition takes the number of equipment rental depots the company operates to 14, they are: Bedford, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Avonmouth/Bristol, Burgess Hill, Errol – Perth, Exeter, Inverness, Newark, Saltash, Southampton, Stockport /Manchester and Woking.
Morris Leslie was established in August 1974, as a local construction equipment sales and trading company in Rait - halfway between Dundee and Perth in Scotland. 10 years later in March 1980 the company began renting equipment, extending the rental activity to England in 1990 when it acquired a business with three locations in the South west - Exeter, Plymouth & Saltash.

In 2000 it acquired two locations from Cox Plant Hire, in Burgess Hill and Woking, followed by three depots from Ambrose Plant Hire in 2013. It made a big jump forward in 2017 when it acquired four Hewden locations from its administrators, which expanded its telehandler fleet to the fourth largest in the UK. The following year it took over Chersey in Surrey.