COMPANY HISTORY

Founded by the late Garth Edward Gambier some 35 years ago, Minster Motor Services was started at Minster on the Isle of Sheppy in Kent. Its core business was providing a delivery service to Motokov who imported Skoda Cars, Zetor Tractors and Jawa Motorbikes. After a few years Motokov decided to move it's import facility to King's Lynn where they would have new purpose built premises and where the port had a Roll on/Roll off facility. This move triggered Minster Motor Services to do the same so that they could continue to provide quality service to Motokov. After a few years Minster Motor Services became a Limited company and started to concentrate solely on the Skoda Car deliveries. This was due to the quantities being sold. After seven years in King's Lynn Garth Edward Gambier's untimely accident led to the running of Minster Motor Services being taken over by his wife Rose who has since been joined by their son Ian. In the 25 years that Rose has been at the helm things continued to change. In the early 90's Volkswagen purchased Skoda which meant that Motokov were no longer the importers of the product, this meant that the deliveries were amalgamated with Volkswagens own product. While Minster Motor Service still has dealings and friends with Motokov they have sourced work elsewhere and increased involvement with companies with whom there were already business dealings.