About Us

For over 30 years, Allmakes 4x4 has been supplying high quality Land Rover parts and accessories to parts businesses, workshops, Government Organisations, Charities and NGO's across the world.

Originally known as Allmakes, a name relating to the vision of the company's founding Director, Peter Hands, the company now known as Allmakes 4x4 has grown into one of the most recognised suppliers for Land Rover parts in existence.

The company was started in 1977 in a room no bigger than a Land Rover 90 in the Directors house in Oxford. Originally the company focussed on supplying parts for Land Rovers, Trucks and Buses, even supplying parts at one stage to Routemaster. However it was the Export Business that really took off and within months, a larger office had been secured on Milton Trading Estate in a town just south of Oxford called Abingdon. This is the place where Allmakes 4x4 still resides to this day, although the estate is now simply known as Milton Park. 

Two partner directors were also appointed at this stage, all of whom shared a common grounding in the parts business and who arrived from working at Unipart. The Directors and some key personnel continued to build the business up, and it wasn't long before larger premises were required.

In 1982, Allmakes moved to another site in Abingdon and a number of additional personnel were recruited, many of whom are still with us, but with business growing at an unprecedented rate, and with new markets emerging in the UK and abroad, it wasn't long before the company had to move again.

In 1987, Allmakes moved back to Milton Park and continued to grow. One highlight was winning the Queens Award for Export in 1991. This was an incredible achievement for a company still so young, but they proved worthy of this recognition, managing to grow even during the recession of the early 90's.

By the mid 90's. Allmakes had developed a booming UK business to compliment their dominant export business. The business bought into an accessory manufacturing business called Gainsborough Accessories and this meant that the company could now manufacture a quality range of accessories for themselves and undercut Land Rover to meet the demands of their customers

Later on in the 90's, the company extended its local reach and introduced a fleet of delivery vans. This proved very successful, but as the courier companies serving Allmakes improved, so the reliance on personal delivery faded. Allmakes still operates deliveries to some areas of the UK, but not on the scale that they used to.

The Late 90's saw Allmakes change its name to Allmakes 4x4 as by this time they were firmly established as a key Land Rover parts supplier. With this came the decision to move into other markets too, and for a number of years, Allmakes offered parts for Chrysler Jeep vehicles, a side of the business that would later be sold off to another company.

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