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How are we going to achieve that? By taking a unified approach to meeting the varied needs of our clients. As you will see from this website, we operate four businesses: hire, sales, service and parts. These four businesses work hand in hand with each other to provide a synergistic solution. What does this mean, to you, the customer? It means that we have sufficient capability, resources and expertise to take care of all your requirements. But there’s more. As a family firm, with offices that are truly local, we are totally committed to delivering a service that’s second to none, and which is characterised by flexibility, integrity, reliability and quality. The end result is tremendous added value, underpinned by exceptional service, at extremely competitive prices. If we can continue to provide all these benefits, whilst listening closely to our customers, we’re confident that we’ll achieve our goal.
Charlotte Barford Managing Director


Formed in 1987, Clive Barford Limited is the leading, privately owned, compact equipment specialist in Southern Britain for hire, sales, servicing and parts. Our 10 depots cover from Land’s End to The Wash and from Beachy Head to The Welsh Valleys, employing over 160 people. We’ve invested £30 million in our hire fleet, and spend £6 million every year on new equipment. We are passionate about everything that we do. Our experienced local teams combine reliability and speed of response with competitive prices and excellent advice to provide our customers with outstanding value.
Our unified approach means we can offer a complete solution with the flexibility to hire, purchase, hire with the option to buy, or to contract hire. We are a total quality management company. The world’s leading manufacturers have awarded us main supplier status and we have BS EN ISO 9001:2008 certification, at every one of our centres, for each part of our business and our administration and accounts departments. We take a partnering approach with customers - we act as their in-house plant department, totally involved in satisfying their every need with speed and efficiency. In addition, we proactively advise customers with their ongoing requirements.