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Company description
VL TEST SYSTEMS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 December 1990; registered for 35 years; registered office reported in BUCKINGHAM. Its primary declared activity is 47990 · Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 March 2026, it reported net assets £2,704,887, average employees 43. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 3 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- VL TEST SYSTEMS LIMITED
- Company number
- 02566304
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- SMALL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 1 outstanding · 3 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2026Next accounts due
31 December 2027Last statement made up to
14 December 2025Next statement due
28 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Fixed assets
- £550,595
- Net assets
- £2,704,887
- Current assets
- £4,882,805
- Current liabilities
- £2,666,311
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £2,767,089
- Cash at bank
- £860,343
- Equity
- £2,704,887
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Full Accounts£632,089 net assets
04 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Supply, Installation and Maintenance of a Vehicle Roller Brake Tester
Cleveland Fire Authority · ocds-b5fd17-9d8aa4bf-0811-4742-a8a1-2f63d5dc6606
- Supplier named in award
- VL TEST SYSTEMS LIMITED
- Award value
- £49,745
- Contract period
- 24 February 2020 – 23 February 2030
- Published
- 19 June 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 34000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9d8aa4bf-0811-4742-a8a1-2f63d5dc6606-2020-06-19T11:25:21+01:00
Calibration, Repair and Maintenance of Roller Brake Testers (RBTs), Headlamp Beam Testers (HBTs) and Wheel Play Detectors (WPDs)
BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC · ocds-b5fd17-4f2894b5-d567-4522-a5b0-f4ca6315a6d5
- Supplier named in award
- VL TEST SYSTEMS LIMITED
- Award value
- £2,698,000
- Contract period
- 1 March 2018 – 28 February 2021
- Published
- 22 March 2018
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 50410000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4f2894b5-d567-4522-a5b0-f4ca6315a6d5-2018-03-22T14:29:25Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Lagercrantz Group Aktiebolag
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Sweden
- Legal authority
- The Swedish Companies Act 2005
- Legal form
- Public Limited Company
- Place registered
- Bolagsverket Swedish Companies Registration Office
- Registration number
- 556282-4556
- Notified
- 20 February 2025
Van Leeuwen Plus Bv
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Legal authority
- Netherlands
- Legal form
- Bv
- Notified
- 3 September 2018
- Ceased
- 20 February 2025
Mr Cornelis Van Leeuwen
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Country of residence
- Netherlands
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 3 August 2018
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.