Car auction house expands in Parkgate

A LONG-running car auction house is on the road to expansion after moving down the road to a roomier home.

Bawtry Motor Auctions, founded in 1947, has relocated to a new seven-acre facility at Carr House on Greasborough Road in Parkgate and relaunched as Motor Auction Group (MAG).

The move leaves the firm with a dedicated 15,000 sq ft auction house which has undergone a full restoration.

MAG said the extra space had helped its sales to rise to over 500 vehicles a week.

James Tomlinson, managing director of MAG, said: “The company has grown considerably over the past few years and we knew that there was a need to expand as we aimed for sales of more than 300 cars per week.

“It was clear to us that the Bawtry site was no longer sufficient and we spotted an opportunity to acquire the Rotherham site.

“There was a lot of work to secure the site and to make the changes required so we appointed Knight Frank who worked alongside Mark Roberts, our business development manager from BHP Consultancy, to organise the logistics and practicalities of the relocation.”