Welcome to Atkinson Vos Expedition Vehicles
For serious adventurers, Atkinson Vos has over 40 years of experience working with Unimogs and other heavy off-road trucks. This expertise allows us to turn these vehicles into reliable, capable expedition platforms, with bespoke subframes, habitation boxes, and a wide range of accessories tailored to your journey.
Our team is hands-on, professional, and approachable. We work closely with you throughout your project, offering expert guidance, practical solutions, and honest advice to make sure your expedition vehicle meets your exact needs.
Every project is tailored to make the most of the space on your chassis — every millimetre counts. Steps, solar panels, water storage, and more are all possibilities. When you visit, we will sit down with you, sketch ideas, solve problems, and bring your vision to life.
Your adventure is our passion. Contact us today to start building your dream expedition vehicle.
What we offer
- Vehicle Sales & Sourcing
- Fully equipped workshop for vehicle maintainance, modifications and full expedition builds
- In house design team, using SolidWorks CAD to create innovative designs
- A range of optimised, tested designs created for the SBU Unimog series
- A host of Unimog upgrades, built up from decades of Unimog experience
- Long term support - we are always here to help with parts or advice
- We prepare the habitation box for it's interior fitout, but we don't carry this out
Our Team
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Simon Ward
Director
Simon is our general manager and resident Unimog expert. From advice on vehicle selection and sourcing to build and upgrade options he is the man to talk to. With a keen eye on everything that comes through the yard he will ensure that any build is up to our high standards.
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Ed Dale
Design Engineering Manager
Ed oversees our design & engineering department, he's skilled with Solidworks CAD and FEA (Finite Element Analysis) but also brings a keen eye for mechanical design to bear on all the projects on which he works. It's a great combination which fits in well here at AV. Ed will work with you to specify your project and will propose designs to suit your requirements.
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Mark Milner
Workshop Supervisor
Mark is our Workshop Supervisor and Technical Specialist. He's been part of the Atkinson Vos Team since 2011 and has built up a wealth of experience over that time. As well as being an expert mechanic, Mark is a talented fabricator & welder. If you have a design or something you want to fit to your truck, he will modify, move and adapt the truck to make it work for you.
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Gabi Feather
Receptionist
Gabi is our receptionist and the lynch pin of the Atkinson Vos office. Gabi has years of experience in different businesses but this is her first encounter with Unimogs! Always with a smile on her face and a "happy to help" attitude, Gabi will go the extra mile to help our customers get the answers they need from technical queries to chasing up the delivery of spare parts orders.
Our Story
Frank Atkinson & Jaap Vos formed a partnership in 1976 initially buying used trucks, driving to West Africa then selling them.
After many years of successful trading they established a base in Cameroon and latterly in the UK.
Their first Unimog sale was in 1991 and Unimog quickly became the mainstay of the business.
Simon Ward joined the business in 2001 and with his enthusiasm for anything with four or more big wheels, the Unimog sales, workshop, parts & accessories went from strength to strength.
Having serviced the Expedition Vehicle market with the supply of base vehicles for many years our range of accessories developed to include many products specifically designed for this market, including larger diesel tanks and uprated springs.
An order for 12 Unimogs for the Mining Industry in Africa meant a rapid learning curve about sandwich panels and adhesives.
With this order successfully completed our confidence was bolstered sufficiently to build a number of one-off habitation boxes on Unimogs and other trucks.
We learnt a great deal along the way and made the decision that we didn’t want to follow the crowd/copy what other UK box builders were doing.
Our solution had to be innovative, lightweight and robust.
Through a combination of engineering expertise, practical experience, and real-world testing we refined our panel specs, adhesives and mounting system to offer what we believe is the best combination of quality, value and customer service in the World.
Atkinson Vos subframes and habitation boxes - Proudly made in England with the support of a trusted network of the best suppliers in the UK and EU.
Check out some of the projects we've completed over the years:
Our History
Company founded by Frank Atkinson & Jaap Vos as Africa Link Ltd. Initially selling trucks & machinery into West Africa.
1st Unimog sale through a small advert in the Farmers Weekly.
Operations consolidated in High Bentham.
Adjacent land purchased for future expansion.
Unimog accessory range launched and constantly added to and refined ever since.
Simon Ward joined the business as salesman & workshop coordinator. Company Name changed to Atkinson Vos Ltd.
Current workshop & offices constructed.
Atkinson Vos became agents for Mitas tyres.
Succession plan devised to enable Simon to start the process of buying the business.
Jaap Vos retired.
Workshop extended to create more working space.
Dedicated dispatch area created and parts department expanded.
AV Camper Trucks is founded to focus on the growing market for offroad campervans.
How we can help?
Let us know what you have in mind for your project.
Part of Atkinson Vos
We have over 40 years experience in business working with Unimogs and other offroad vehicles across various sectors. Check out our main site to see the range of services we offer.