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"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
Assembly for Crick brands — six components in, one barcoded SKU out, built to a written work instruction with a first-off sample approved before the run.
Contract assembly serving Crick: bundles, gift sets, sub-assemblies, POS and shelf-ready builds, with component-level stock visibility so you know how many kits you can actually make. Assembly from £0.45, de-kitting available, 8 minutes from DIRFT via M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
Assembly done before the orders arrive is cheap. Assembly done during a rush is what makes a peak fall over.
Parts received, counted against your bill of materials and held as components, so you always know how many finished kits you can actually build.
Kits assembled to a written spec and barcoded as one finished SKU — which is what lets a complex product be picked as a single line.
Counter units, shelf-ready packs and promotional displays built, filled and wrapped ready to ship into a retail account.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per unit built. Long-term contract rates tier down on repeat builds where the work instruction is already established.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Multipacks, banded sets and two-to-three component kits.
Multi-component kits, sub-assemblies and light assembly.
Counter units, floor displays and shelf-ready packs.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
WSUK builds kits, multipacks, retail displays and sub-assemblies for businesses across Crick and Northamptonshire, to a written work instruction with a first-off sample approved before any run. Unsold seasonal kits can be broken back down so the components return to stock instead of being discounted as a set.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every kitting & assembly client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Multipacks and banded sets, gift and starter kits, sub-assemblies, promotional packs, and retail display or POS units built and filled to the retailer’s spec. Simple assembly from £0.45 per unit; complex builds quoted once we have seen the spec.
A written work instruction agreed with you, a first-off sample approved before the run starts, and a QC check per batch. Components are counted against your bill of materials at goods-in, so shortages surface before the build rather than during it.
Yes — the kit becomes its own SKU with its own barcode and stock figure, which is what turns a six-component product into a single pick line when the orders arrive.
Yes, and it is worth planning. Tell us the launch date and the build is finished beforehand, so a spike in Crick orders clears the same day instead of backing up behind assembly work.
Yes. De-kitting returns components to stock as individual SKUs, which usually beats discounting a seasonal set. Component storage is from £4.50 per pallet per week.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| First-off sample approved before any run | Yes | Rarely |
| Finished kits barcoded as one SKU | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum build | Yes | Rarely |
| Component-level stock visibility | Yes | Rarely |
| De-kitting back to components available | Yes | Rarely |
We provide kitting and assembly across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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