Toy Barn team to expand

Thursday 20th March, 2025

In May 2024, Toy Barn Automotive opened in Newham’s Heron Way as an automotive restoration company with a particular specialism in older-model Land Rovers. 

A year on, the company is growing. Owners Geoff Rushton and Nicky Wood are to be joined by two experienced senior Land Rover technicians from mid-March, enabling Toy Barn Automotive to offer full diagnostics, servicing and repairs on the full range, past and present, of Land Rovers and Range Rovers.

“It was always a big part of our business plan to build a small, professional, like-minded team, so we are very excited,” says Geoff, who has enjoyed a long career in service management, and is as passionate about restoring vintage and classic vehicles as he is about Land Rovers.

“It’s an iconic brand,” he enthuses. “The Land Rover is the first car you learn to draw, without even realising.”

The company name was inspired by the nature of the projects the couple specialised in: “Customers' second cars, weekend and summer wagons, projects, show cars, cherished family vehicles – the ones they own for, their ‘toys’, if you will,” Geoff explains. 

“Similarly, a lot of Land Rover enthusiasts and owners consider their cars as ‘fun’ vehicles to own and drive.”

Open Tuesday to Friday, 8am to 5.30pm. Tel 07463 514985, www.toybarnautomotive.co.uk