Richard Hammond takes control of classic car workshop

Summarised from Bournemouth Echo's report · Updated 21 Oct, 14:38 · Archive

Richard Hammond has taken majority control of The Smallest Cog, a Hereford-based classic car restoration garage, according to Companies House documents filed in December 2025 showing he holds 75 per cent or more of the company's shares.

The sixth season of Richard Hammond's Workshop, which follows the real-life operations of the garage, launches on Tuesday, October 27. The Bournemouth Echo reports that the workshop has faced financial difficulties. Earlier this year it emerged that the garage was at one point struggling under debts of about £700,000. Hammond reportedly injected nearly £600,000 of his own money into the workshop, where his team chrome-plated a vintage tractor for fellow television presenter Jeremy Clarkson, which now hangs in Clarkson's Cotswolds pub, The Farmer's Dog.

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In this story: Richard Hammond · Jeremy Clarkson · The Smallest Cog · Hereford · Cotswolds

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