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Directory Spotlight:<br />
Martin Wise – Director RDH Commercials<br />
We service the Harveys fleet and<br />
RDH Coaches, as well as other<br />
commercial customers. We usually<br />
maintain vans and buses but there’s<br />
the odd campervan, car and motorbike<br />
in there too. We’ve serviced<br />
a three-wheel tuk-tuk and even a<br />
commercial food mixer that broke<br />
down one Bonfire Night.<br />
We were based on the Phoenix Estate for<br />
eight years, but the decision to develop the site<br />
meant it was time to go, so we moved the workshop<br />
to Harveys Yard two years ago. It feels like<br />
these sorts of businesses are being squeezed out<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong> but I think every town needs industry.<br />
We’re very happy here and Harveys are a lovely<br />
company to work with. We look after all their<br />
vehicles. We even service the dray.<br />
Five and a half people work here; the half being<br />
my wife Nicola who does the books. We took<br />
on two apprentices twelve<br />
years ago, thinking only one<br />
would stay, but they’re both<br />
still here. It’s a friendly workshop.<br />
If you call us you’ll get<br />
me on the phone and all of our<br />
customers come in for a chat.<br />
The largest vehicles we<br />
look after are Harveys’ new<br />
42-tonne articulated Mercedes lorries. You<br />
used to have to use an inspection pit to service<br />
vehicles of that size but they were horrible places<br />
– full of oil and rats and sandwiches – so now<br />
we use column lifts. You can attach one to each<br />
wheel you’ve got to lift.<br />
The smallest vehicle we look after is Annie,<br />
Miles Jenner’s Austin Seven. That’s an important<br />
one to get right. As told to Lizzie Lower<br />
Davey’s Lane, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
RDHcommercials.com / 01273 479777<br />
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