West Hampstead’s Fix Auto UK celebrates 75th anniversary

AB Dyne Motors Ltd was started in 1949 by George Wright in Dyne Road, West Hampstead, to service, manage and repair black cabs.

After a disastrous fire two years later, the business moved round the corned to Iverson Road, where it has been based ever since.

The business passed to George’s sons Philip, Freddie, in the early 1970s, and Philip’s son Matt took control shortly before the business joined Fix Auto UK as a franchise in 2011.

Matt Wright’s father, Philip, and uncle Freddie when they ran AB Dyne Ltd (Image: Fix Auto UK/AB Dyne)

Managing director Matt and his team – representing two other sites at Fix Auto High Wycombe and Fix Auto Hoddesdon – joined Fix Auto UK representatives and suppliers to celebrate the firm’s 75th anniversary.

He said: “We believe we are one of, if not, the oldest vehicle repairer in London and, I’m pretty sure, there can’t be many repairers in the UK that have continuously been repairing vehicles since the 1940s.

Matt Wright outside Fix Auto West Hampstead (Image: Fix Auto UK)

“When you look back, as a…