About Us

Meet Our Team

Operating from our own six-acre site near Beverley in East Yorkshire, our workforce currently consists of 50 employees including skilled designers, technicians, bodybuilders, fabricators, electricians, production staff, painters, fitters and apprentices, who are supported by a team of administration and managerial personnel.

The management and senior employees at Kinetic are the same people who developed the first PSU vehicles in 1980 and the first cellular prison vans in 1983 – this experience is the backbone of our organisation.

Company Structure:

• Grant Pearce – Managing Director
• David Corton – Director
• David Briggs – Director
• Mark Catley – Director

Our History:

Kinetic Special Vehicles Ltd was founded in 1946 as Cottingham Bodybuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd, specialising in building truck bodies on the chassis of ex military vehicles.

In the early Eighties we began our long relationship with Police Forces. The riots in the St. Paul’s area of Bristol in 1980 stimulated an interest in protected police vehicles and the company was asked to produce a prototype protected personnel carrier for Humberside Police. The vehicle was an immediate success and we were encouraged to broadcast our designs to Police Forces across the country.

In 1982 we designed and built our first fully equipped mobile police station while 1983 saw the production of our first cellular prison van using a design that was later adopted as a standard by the Home Office.

In 1988, Cottingham Bodybuilders parted company with its owners. The company was bought by its managers and eventually, in 1990, relocated to Tickton, East Yorkshire, in the process acquiring our present name.

In 1994 Kinetic Special Vehicles expanded to meet the demand for prison vans and, in doing so, retained its position as market leader for the supply of custodial vehicles of all kinds.