Wesbroom Engineering on Mersea Road

A Colchester metal fabrication and trailer workshop with an active Companies House record and NTTA listing, serving trade and domestic customers from a fixed south Colchester base.

On Mersea Road in south Colchester, Wesbroom Engineering Limited runs a metal fabrication and trailer workshop serving trade customers and the general public. Companies House lists the firm as an active private limited company (03942491), incorporated on 8 March 2000, with its registered office at 173 Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8PN. Its filed nature of business is the manufacture of other fabricated metal products (SIC 25990).

The company itself states that it has manufactured and hired trailers from its Colchester base since 1968. That offer still sits at the centre of the business. Alongside fabrication, Wesbroom supplies and fits towbars, services caravans and trailers, and designs, makes and repairs decorative ironwork such as gates and railings. It is listed by the National Trailer and Towing Association (NTTA) as a member workshop for towbar and trailer work, and presents itself as an approved service centre for Witter and Westfalia towbars in the Essex area.

For readers who need metalwork rather than a catalogue product, the fabrication pages are the practical starting point. Wesbroom says it undertakes sheet metal and fabrication in steel, stainless steel and aluminium, including cutting and folding to customer drawings. Welding services listed include manual metal arc, MIG and TIG, available at the Mersea Road premises or on a customer’s site. Fabricated items cited on the company website include security grilles, balustrades, handrails, gates and railings.

Towing support is another clear strand. The firm offers supply and fitting of towbars, spares and accessories, together with servicing and inspection of related towing equipment. Wiring options published on its towbar page include standard 7-pin, double electrics and 13-pin electrics, with programmable kits available for vehicles that need coded electrics. Towbar-mounted bike rack fitting is also advertised. According to the company, Witter towbars fitted through its workshop come with the manufacturer’s lifetime warranty.

Trailer hire is set out with published day and weekend rates for car transporters, drop-side and flat-bed trailers, a box trailer and a motorcycle trailer. Caravan and trailer servicing prices are likewise listed on the website (for example, single-axle trailer servicing from £150 plus VAT, and single-axle caravan servicing from £200 plus VAT). Opening hours stated by the business are Monday to Friday, 8am to 4.30pm, and Saturday mornings from 8.30am to noon, subject to change. Contact is via 01206 576959

In a borough where many features lean towards food and retail, a fabrication and trailer workshop is useful local infrastructure. Wesbroom is not a showroom proposition. It is a Colchester manufacturer and service trade with a fixed address, an active Companies House record, and an independent industry directory listing that businesses and householders can check for themselves.

Angela White

I am a motivational speaker and business consultant based in London.