Robert McGregor & Sons
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| Company type | Limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Civil engineering |
| Headquarters | Chaddock Lane, Boothstown, Walkden, Salford, England |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Robert McGregor & Sons, also known just as Mc Gregor was a large civil engineering company based in Boothstown, in what is now Greater Manchester, England.[1]
History[edit]
It was founded in Manchester in 1927.[2]
It specialised in building concrete surfaces for roads using a machine known as a concrete paver. It worked with the company Cementation Construction Ltd. It developed the CPP60 concrete paver.
It became part of Norwest Holst Civil Engineering, when bought in October 1978 for £3m.
Structure[edit]
It was based on the A572 in Walkden in Greater Manchester (Salford). It also had a site in at Birdholme in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Products[edit]
Roads it built include:
- A1(M) Birtley bypass (£2.5 million)
- A1 Grantham bypass, 1962
- A1 Newark-on-Trent bypass, 1964[3]
- A1 Improvement from North of Muskham to South of Carlton including Cromwell By-pass, 1965 (£772,000)
- A1 Sutton-on-Trent, Weston, and Tuxford By-Pass, 1967, £4m
- A46 dualling between Six Hills (B676) and Widmerpool (A606), December 1965, £1.126 million
- A1 Eaton Socon bypass, 1971[4]
- M56 North Cheshire Motorway
Constructions:
- Coedty Reservoir dam
Sport[edit]
It founded the McGregor Trophy in Golf in 1982, initially held at Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club.
References[edit]
- ^ Contracts in 1968
- ^ Page 16, The McGregor Story: The First Thirty Years, By Roy Case
- ^ Winter 1964 Concrete Quarterly 63 Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hansard November 1987
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