PEOPLE owed money by a bankrupt Huddersfield window firm have been told they are unlikely to get anything.

Receivers BWC Business Solutions say there is little chance of people with small claims getting money from Quick Frame Sales.

The company was based in St Thomas's Road, Longroyd Bridge, and supplied windows and doors across the UK. It went into receivership in September.

Parent company Northern Glass stopped trading in December, with the loss of more than 50 jobs.

Former workers who have not yet been paid could also be in for a long wait for their money, because the taxpayer may have to foot the bill if no assets are left over after the liquidators sell the company.

est Yorkshire Trading Standards officials confirmed today that they are investigating the company's practices.

They will give their findings to the Government's Department of Trade and Industry.

Records held by Companies House in London reveal that a former director of Northern Glass and Quick Frame, Alan Rees, of East View, Brighouse, has been involved with 26 firms, as director or secretary, since 1991.

Even before Northern Glass and Quick Frame Sales ran into problems Mr Rees had been involved with 10 other companies that had gone into liquidation.

In 1997, he registered as the director of eight companies - all with slightly different names. Six went into liquidation just a week later and the other two were dissolved in 2001.

It is believed that Mr Rees's brother, Colin, from Bingley, has now taken over the helm of an operation at the Longroyd Bridge site.

But neither brother would comment today.

One of Quick Frame Sales' angry customers, Nancy Priestley, of Dewsbury Road, Rastrick, is hoping to get £1,100 back for a faulty door the company had been promising to fix for more than a year.

She said: "In July, 2003, I ordered a door and paid a deposit. In August that year I paid the balance.

"In the September I complained because the door would not shut. It was broken.

"Finally, after a few months, someone came out - but the door was not fixed. At that point I contacted trading standards.

"After a lot of arguing Quick Frame said they would replace it by the end of October, 2004. But on the day the work was supposed to be done no-one turned up.

"I rang them and they said they were waiting for a part from a company in Hull. But when I rang that company they said no order for the part had been placed."

West Yorkshire Trading Standards spokesman David Lodge said they had received more than 10 complaints about Quick Frame Sales.

He added: "We have been in contact with Mrs Priestley and several other trading standards officers are investigating complaints from across the country.

"Cases like this are difficult and it is very unlikely Mrs Priestly will get any money back."

The Examiner has passed on findings about Alan Rees to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry at the request of the Insolvency Service.