About The German Motor Company

The German Motor Company (GMC) began trading in November 1983 from Woodlands Way, East Putney, London.

The business was founded by Phil Salvage, Dave Travis and three others who had been apprenticed when aged 16 and who then worked together at Jack Barclays, the main London Rolls Royce/Bentley and VW/Audi dealership.

Phil was a time-served apprentice, then mechanic, on Rolls Royce before moving into management and becoming the Senior Reception Engineer for Rolls/Bentley, whilst Dave was a mechanic on VW/Audi.

Phil and Dave remain with GMC today as Managing Director and Workshop Manager respectively.

Over the years the business has built up a loyal customer base in South West London and we set out in the Testimonial section of this site extracts from customers' letters going back for 20 years. A file of these of letters is kept in our reception and any customer is welcome to peruse this file – please ask to see it.

After nearly 27 years trading from our Putney site our premises there are due to be redeveloped into luxury flats and offices.

On 10th January 2011 we opened our new workshop at 62-64 Kimber Road, Wandsworth, London SW18 4PP, being the former garage of Joe Macari, a Ferrari and Maserati dealership, which has since moved to premises nearby.

For some years we have been short of space in Putney and due to uncertainty about redevelopment have deliberately held back on improving our workshop, knowing redevelopment was inevitable.

The fit-out works at Kimber Road started at the end of August 2010 and we are delighted with the new workshop and reception facilities.

By co-incidence in March 2011 Jack Barclays moved into their new Bentley repair shop which is within 300m of our new premises, so Kimber Road is now a major centre in South West London for the repair of quality motor cars.

Our new premises have allowed us to employ 4 new members of staff and provide better facilities for our customers and present employees. It also has 2 new single-man MOT testing ramps for all diesel and petrol cars.

Our phone number remains unchanged after the move. We look forward to seeing all our old customers and to welcome new customers and believe our new premises will allow us to build on the reputation we have accumulated over the past 27 years.