Dockgate 20 Motorcycles Ltd, the parent company of the Dockgate 20 Harley-Davidson and Thames Valley Harley-Davidson dealerships located respectively in Southampton and Slough, has definitely gone belly-up.

Richard Hawes and Julia Branson, of leading acountancy group and insolvency specialist Deloitte, were appointed as joint administrators of the company on 23 December 2010.

In addition to the above, following the recent closure of its London Harley outlet in Walthamstow, the Pendragon automotive group’s bike division is consolidating in the West Midlands.

The company is adding a Stoke-on-Trent Harley store to its pair of Stratstone Harley operations in Birmingham and Wolverhampton and Stratstone Triumph dealerships in Leicester and Wolverhampton.

Pendragon’s Walthamstow branch was folded after the opening of a Harley-Davidson franchise adjacent to the Lakeside shopping mall at Thurrock in Essex, which pinched much of its business. The Lakeside Harley dealership is owned by another competing automotive chain, the Jardine group.