If you are unsure what a commercial vehicle bodybuilder can do for you, then let us help explain how Osborne Motor Bodies services can help you.
When you are looking for to add a new commercial vehicle to your fleet, but you want something more flexible and versatile than a standard 'off the shelf' model of a vehicle body, then you can approach a well-established and respected commercial vehicle bodybuilder, such as our team at Osborne Motor Bodies, for their help.
Experienced commercial vehicle bodybuilder
Commercial vehicle bodybuilders are part of a niche group of specialists engineers and mechanics that form an integral part of the process for building or converting standard commercial vehicles for more bespoke purposes.
This is a highly specialised field that requires experts with lots of creative mechanical and engineering skills and an ability to think outside of the box.
Where most commercial vehicle bodybuilders are trained to build vehicles from scratch to fit a standard set of rules or instructions, many are also experienced in tweaking designs and measuring the outcomes and effectiveness of changing a design to fit a particular need or to fulfil a task.
Our team of engineers at Osborne Motor Bodies have a great balance of skills and plenty of patience. We are able to not only build new commercial vehicles from scratch but also adapt and modify vehicles to suit a customer's specific requirements that may not be adequately met by using a standard commercial vehicle 'as is'.
Specialist tools, workshop facilities and years of knowledge
When you approach a standard commercial garage for help with maintenance and repairs, they will often have staff that are skilled in welding and fabricating for repairs to bring your commercial vehicle back to as close to its original form and function as possible.
In most cases, these commercial repair centres will have workshop facilities and tools that house the machinery and equipment that allow them to do what is necessary to perform standard repairs or replacements to your commercial vehicle.
However, with our team at Osborne, we have team members that are used to thinking outside the box with regards to building metal vehicle structures by cutting, bending, and assembling different design pieces together to create something truly bespoke.
As a specialist commercial vehicle body conversion company, Osborne Motor Bodies are not only skilled in converting standard basic commercial vehicle bodies to fit the needs of our customers, but our team and workshop allow us to build high-quality vehicles as bespoke one-off designs to fit your exact requirements.
As part of our commercial vehicle conversions services, we can customise and make modifications, including:
- Dropsides
- Helper ramps
- Removable caged sides
- Roof-mounted lights
- Spring-assisted tailgates
- Storage lockers
- Fixed tool racking
- And more
Depending on the type of commercial vehicle you need, we can look at what you want your vehicle to do for you and then reverse engineer your vehicle conversion to ensure that it does exactly what you need it to do out in the field.
Bespoke vehicle bodybuilding services
Osborne Motor Bodies like to pride ourselves on delivering bespoke services to our customers. Whether that is a very unique 'one-off' design and build for a solo-entrepreneur setting up a mobile business, or an established company looking to tweak their fleet vehicles to perform strategic tasks that standard commercial vehicles are unable to do.
Osborne Motor Bodies Limited has been around since 1920, that's 100 years of unrivalled skills, in-depth knowledge and craftsmanship that goes into every single commercial vehicle we work on.
We generally work on vehicles up to 7500Kg GVW, which makes us especially suited to delivering specialist one-off commercial vehicle conversion to fit our customer's specific requirements.
Our team of engineers have an outstanding reputation for vehicle bodywork of the highest quality and we are extremely well known as the 'go-to' company for help in the dairy, utilities and glass carrying sectors of the vehicle bodybuilding trade.
Established in Saffron Walden in 1920 by Rex William Osborne who was a carpenter by trade. His first entry into bodybuilding was a removable container which dropped into the dickie seat of a local butcher's Clyno car.
From these humble, yet significantly innovative beginnings, Osborne Motor Bodies have kept up with their cutting-edge training and flexibility to deliver a full range of commercial vehicle adaptation services, including insulated and refrigerated models, retaining the ability to offer individual designs to meet all customers' requirements.
Putting the needs of our customers first
Our dedicated and friendly team are committed to putting the needs of our customers first. We have built a strong set of core values over the years and an unwavering dedication for delivering consistent quality, reliability and performance that exceed the expectations of our end customers.
Our 100-years of success has been sustained by a high level of repeat business from companies and businesses that have been working with us for years. This is because we go out of our way to ensure that our finished commercial vehicle bodybuilding services deliver exactly what our customer requires.
Our unique combination of highly-skilled, knowledgeable staff and years of experience in the commercial vehicle bodybuilding trade offers our customers a lot of reassurance that their needs will be met on time and on spec.
Do not hesitate to contact our team at Osborne Motor Bodies to discuss your needs. We are here to help!

