Martin Robey Parts
Martin Robey founded the Company in 1978 while working as a Time Served Sheet Metal Engineer, he started to manufacture a Front Wheel Arch repair for MK.II Saloons as a joint venture with a friend this was one of the first high quality repair panels made available at that time and demand soon took off in what was the early beginning of the Classic Car Movement, at the same time a S Type Saloon was being restored and the Body Shell had extensive corrosion, the owner provided a number of original Jaguar Body Panels but parts such as Sills, Jacking Points, Chassis Sections etc., were only available as general spurious repair panels, these were not considered acceptable as they bared little resemblance to the originals both from a dimensional or material aspect, therefore Martin Robey made the necessary parts creating Templates and simple Jigs to aid future manufacture of the parts if necessary at a later date.

The car when finished brought in other orders for similar work and the parts were showed to an existing Parts Dealer of such parts and orders were placed from then on, it has been both gradual expansion of the business with certain leaps and bounds and many milestones on the way.
Pressing and Forming of the higher demand parts soon took over from Hand Working with a Tool Making Programme started that is still running to date with Models, Patterns, Casting and Machining being carried out In House, some parts usually low volume large Body Panels are sill made by hand using the traditional skills of the Sheet Metal Worker and Panel Beater.

Manufacturing is now assisted with the latest technology being incorporated such as Cad Cam designing to run CNC Machines that eliminates a lot of labour intensive tasks, a wide variety of Plant and Equipment is on Site to cover most aspects of manufacturing from Folding, Forming, Spot, Mig, Tig Welding, large Double action Power Presses and a 5 Axis Laser Profiling Machine.
The manufacturing did not stop at Body Parts, soon Fixtures, Fittings, Engine Frames, Heater Boxes, Hood Frames came into production in fact virtually anything that needed to be made was, in fact over 5,000 individual parts are made today by Engineering Limited for Non Current Jaguars.

In about 1981 the Company commenced supplying Parts via Mail Order to Retail Customers, this was another Milestone and expansion was soon needed to cope with incoming orders, the new Mail Order facility was the beginning of the Parts Department, which led to this section branching off from Engineering to become a separate company, Martin Robey Sales Limited.
A purpose designed Industrial Unit of 10,000 square feet was built and the Company transferred to the new site in September 1982 which is still the present location albeit a little larger today with a Parts Department and Warehouse for Sales plus Panel Shop, Press Shop, Paint Shop, Body Build Area and Service and Restoration Section totalling over 35,000 square feet on a 2 acre site. The largest and most comprehensive of any Company in the Classic Jaguar World.
During the late 70's and 80's E Type Jaguars could be bought for just a few hundred pounds one reason being the cost and difficulty or repairing the usually heavily corroded Monocoques (or Bodies), Martin Robey had made almost every Body Panel needed but the cost of repairing these Monocoques was almost prohibitive to carry out, it took a great number of hours just to remove the corroded parts and prepare the area for new ones, this was felt to be negative time spent, and coupled with the fact that most of the Monocoques had been subjected to every sort of incorrect repair imaginable. Therefore Martin Robey created a fixed priced system for repairing these units where every part of the Monocoque would be discarded except the Bulkhead or Fire Wall this was usually repairable and when added to all new other sections a fixed price High Quality Body shell ready for the Paint Processes was available, these were called 'System Rebuilds' One, Two and Three dependant on various stages of completion. While these Units were being built the Bulkhead Unit was being Tooled Up for, it was not long before 100% Complete Body shells were available for the Series One and Two Drop Head Coupes or otherwise called 'Roadsters'. During 1994 the first V12 Series Three Body Shell was manufactured and is now an available item.