Jones purchased her Sprinter 313 CDI Medium chassis cab with Mercedes-Benz Financial Services funding support, from Midlands Truck & Van, Coventry. She has also taken out a Mercedes-Benz ServiceCare contract, under which the Dealer will undertake all routine maintenance work for a single, small monthly payment.
The vehicle’s purpose-built and climate-controlled box body is the work of M6 Motor Bodies, of Birmingham and is fitted with accessories including a folding massage couch and fruit bowl-style basin.
‘My business is not a beauty parlour; it’s a spa, and aimed at a high-end, lifestyle-focused customer base,' Jones explained. 'So given its premium brand values and the unrivalled quality of its products, Mercedes-Benz was the only manufacturer I wanted to work with.'
Jones has also benefited from a programme of instruction delivered by the Dealer’s driver-trainer Chris Round, to ensure she can negotiate even the tightest turns to customers’ homes and premises.
She has already begun drawing up plans to franchise her innovative business concept, and added: ‘Groups of three have a sacred significance in some eastern religions – that’s why the name of my new business is formed from three words, each comprising three letters. How appropriate then, that my vehicle should also have a three-pointed star on the front.’