About Ferris Garage Ltd
 

The Ferris family has owned the Garage at Feock since it was built in 1954. Brian Ferris (Tim's father) took over from his aunt in 1970.

                                                   Feock Site circa 1970's                                           Feock Site Today

 In 1972 the Peugeot franchise was awarded and run very successfully until 1980 when they merged with Talbot and the dealership was given to a larger dealer in Truro. It was at this time the business moved into breakdown, firstly with a Land Rover, then with Nissan and Toyota's and trailers until the present day with nineteen dedicated vehicles and a staff of 25.

The company works for most of main breakdown clubs including; Britannia Rescue, Green Flag, Mondial, RAC and also many local main dealers i.e. Audi, Chrysler Jeep, Mercedes, Mercedes Truck and VW.

In 1999 the business became a limited company and successful in winning a second RAC contract, this time covering Newquay and expanding to a second site at Mitchell. The control room, secure parking and majority of recovery vehicles are now located here adjacent to the busy A30.

Mitchell Site

The main repair workshops and accounts are located at Feock. In 2003 a third RAC contract was awarded for the Falmouth area and in August 2006 the Police contract also was won.

After a major review by RAC and tender process in late 2007 two more areas were awarded, and from February 2008 the company covers all the way to Lands End. The control room was updated at this time with new phone and computer systems.

The company has been ISO9002 since 1996 and was the first Cornish Contractor to work to PAS 43. An Operators license was obtained in 2002 allowing legal collection and delivery of non broken down vehicles i.e. redelivery after repairs or new/second hand vehicle movement.

In April 2006 the workshops at Feock were awarded the prestigious BSI Kitemark, at the time only one of 5 in the country and the first in the South West.

We have two technicians who are Authorized Technicians (ATA) which is a form of license; this is also a first in the independent garage sector in the south west.

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.

The Mini stuck in Saharan sand                              Crossing the Kenyan boarder

Exhaust problems in the Amazon                           Thai children by the cars

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. 

The Peugeot 104ZS

Tim's First Talbot Samba                      The altra quick Samba Rallye             Peugeot 106 Rallye on Network Q

On the 1996 Network Q Rally

BTRDA Woodpeck Rally                                                                                   1998 Manx Rally