Britannia AuctionsWarehouse and logistics equipment sales in Glasgow
When a national operator reorganises its Scottish distribution, the depot it gives up is often near Glasgow, because that is where the roads meet. Clydesmill off the M74, Queenslie beside the M8 and the estates around Hillington hold the depots, parts stores and packaging plants that serve most of the country. The equipment they leave behind is standard and plentiful: pallet racking in long runs, reach trucks, powered pallet trucks, chargers and dock levellers.
We sell it by online timed auction from the depot itself, or the lots can be collected and sold from our premises. The main estates are reached from the motorways without a lorry passing through the city, though the yard, the turning space and the loading arrangements are checked on the visit and described in the catalogue. Bidding is online, and the trade in Paisley, East Kilbride, Motherwell and Cumbernauld, across Scotland and up the M74 from northern England, is able to get to a viewing day without a long trip. Use the contact form to say what the depot holds and when it closes.
Scottish depots and the trades that use the kit
Glasgow is the largest industrial market in Scotland, and that has a practical effect on a warehouse sale. Many of the firms in Scotland that use this kind of equipment are within an hour of Clydesmill, and transport cost is one of the things every bidder prices in. Standard lots that would be ordinary elsewhere are at least in front of a wide local trade here.
We lot to suit that market. Racking goes by run with heights and beam ratings, and we also offer a few smaller lots of bays for the firms in Coatbridge or Airdrie who need to extend a store rather than fit one out. Trucks go singly with hours and examination reports. Chargers are matched to trucks. Roll cages, stillages and pallet trucks go in groups. Dealers bid online for the trucks and the larger runs, and they resell across the UK.
Parts stores and the mezzanine at Hillington
The motor trade and engineering firms at Hillington keep parts stores that look small from the door and turn out to hold a great deal. Longspan shelving in tight aisles, tyre racking, a mezzanine with more shelving on top and a stacker or a small forklift to feed it. When a dealership changes hands or a parts distributor consolidates, that store is worth selling properly rather than skipping.
Shelving is lotted by bay, which suits other parts operations, garages, workshops and trade counters across the west of Scotland, and tyre racking has its own trade. A mezzanine needs a competent contractor to take down, and a check on whether the landlord regards it as part of the building. Small lots suit the firms nearby, who mostly want a run rather than a building. We catalogue on site and, where the unit has no yard for a lorry, collection runs by appointment so vans come one at a time. Larger trucks are collected by haulier on a separate day, at the buyer's cost.
What these sales can include
- Counterbalance forklifts
- Reach trucks
- Powered pallet trucks
- Hand pallet trucks
- Pallet racking
- Mezzanine floors
- Longspan and cantilever shelving
- Conveyors and sortation
- Roll cages and stillages
- Stretch wrap machines
- Pallet scales
- Battery chargers
- Order pickers and stackers
- Dock levellers and loading equipment
How the sale runs
After a site visit we agree what is in the sale and what stays. We catalogue and photograph each lot, list the sale online and market it to warehouse operators, dealers and contractors. Bidders view on a set day, then bid online over the sale period, with lots closing in sequence.
Lots are offered as seen under the auction terms, with buyers expected to inspect before bidding. The buyer pays the hammer price plus a buyer's premium, with VAT charged where it applies and shown separately. We collect payment before release.
Collection runs over a window agreed with you. Buyers arrange and pay for the removal of their lots, with suitable handling equipment or specialist contractors where the item needs them. Our staff attend to release lots against paid invoices and see that dismantling is done safely.
The warehouse and logistics equipment sales page covers racking and how it comes down, forklifts and the records that matter, the small equipment adds up, timing a sale around a site handover.
Questions about selling in Glasgow
- Our depot at Queenslie runs 24 hours until the closing date. When can bidders view?
We set the viewing day for the quietest part of the week and mark a route through the building so bidders keep clear of the working areas. The trucks and the racking can be inspected while the operation continues around them, and photographs and video cover the rest. Machines that can be run without risk stay connected for the viewing day, so your staff can demonstrate them where that is agreed, and everything else is isolated and left safe. The auction would close shortly after the operation stops, with collection once the building is empty.
- We have equipment in Glasgow and a second store in Aberdeen. One sale or two?
Usually two, run close together. A buyer decides partly on where they must collect from, and mixing two sites in one catalogue confuses that. We catalogue each site, give each its own viewing day and run the bidding to close within a few days of each other so the marketing works for both. Where the Aberdeen store is small, it can sometimes make more sense to bring that equipment to our own premises and sell it there. We will say which we recommend after seeing both.
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