Ferris Garage Ltd

Home

About Us

Car Sales

Servicing

Recovery

Workshop Repairs (Feock):
01872 861100

Recovery (Mitchell):
01872 511100

About Us

Ferris Garage Ltd is a family owned business established in 1954. We serve a mainly rural community from Bodmin to Porthtowan, St Austell to Falmouth. Our mission statement is:

"Modern technology with old fashion values"

Check out all the latest facts about us below.

Tim, Mary and Flo

About Us
	The Garage was started in 1954 by Cyril Ferris who ran it until 1972 when he sadly died, it was then run for a short time by his wife until Brian Ferris took over. In 1985 Tim Ferris joined the business after learning his trade at Mumfords in Truro. In January 1999 the garage became a limited company.
	Initially comprising of a petrol forecourt and workshops in Feock it has continued to expand the range of services to include breakdown and recovery for many clubs including the RAC.The garage operates a policy of utilising high technology equipment.
	Due to a successful tender we expanded in June 1999 to a second site at Mitchell to encompass the growing breakdown and recovery work.In 2003 the tender for Falmouth was also won increasing the area to its present covering post codes TR1 to TR11 and PL26-8.
	Feock now comprises of: New and Used Car Sales Car and Light Commercial Servicing and Repairs MOT Valeting BSI Kitemark PAS80
	Mitchell is the base for Ferris Recovery comprising of: Breakdown and Recovery Vehicles Nationwide new and used vehicle delivery RTA Compound and secure parking ISO9001:2000 and PAS43:2002
	The Schooner used as a logo was built by William Ferris (Great Great Grandfather to Tim Ferris)in 1868 at Trolver Yard about a mile from Feock Garage. In 1980 Tim Ferris was the mechanic in a two man team that took two Mini's around the world to raise funds for Save the Children's Fund Stop Polio Campaign. The trip took 13 months crossing the Sahara Desert and Africa the Amazon Jungle and South America and overland back from India. The Mini's covered over 60000 miles and were rebuild in South Africa and Singapore by Tim.
	Tim Ferris has been a very successful Rally driver winning BTRDA and Mintex 1300cc championships several times. He has competed on Rally GB five times winning 1300 GpN class on his first attempt by over 20 minutes. The team were affectionately known as the 'Cornish Fasties'. He has only ever competed in up to 1300cc cars starting in a Mini Cooper S, then a Peugeot 104ZS, two self build Talbot Samba Rallye's and then a self build Peugeot 106 Rallye that was used as a model for Peugeot who set up a Championship just for the 106 Rallye.