At the same time nine new vehicles, mainly Vauxhall Vectras, have been handed over to the company's financial controller, Mark Simmonds, at the company's new premises in Bristol by BCH sales manager Julie Quinn. Prior to the new deal AnlX provided its sales and technical support staff with nearly new cars which the company purchased outright.

Simmonds said: 'It makes sense for us to switch over to contract hire as we will now be able to use the money previously tied up in the fleet to help fund expansion plans. By choosing BCH, who are specialists in vehicle management and finance, we can benefit from many of the additional services they provide such as vehicle maintenance and accident management. At our end we will have an administrator for the fleet, but this will only be a small part of their role, enabling more focus on our core business activities.'