Robert McGregor & Sons
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Company typeLimited company
IndustryCivil engineering
HeadquartersChaddock Lane, Boothstown, Walkden, Salford, England
Area served
United Kingdom| 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]
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
It was based on the A572 in Walkden in Greater Manchester (Salford). It also had a site in at Birdholme in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Products
Roads it built include:
- A1(M) Birtley bypass (£2.5 million)
- A1 Grantham bypass, October 1962
- A1 Newark-on-Trent bypass, July 1964[3]
- A1 Improvement from North of Muskham to South of Carlton including Cromwell By-pass, January 1966 (£772,000)
- A1 Sutton-on-Trent, Weston, and Tuxford By-Pass, July 1967, £4m
- A38 Alfreton-M1 bypass, opened in August 1969 as the A615[4]
- A46 dualling between Six Hills (B676) and Widmerpool (A606), December 1965, £1.126 million
- A1 Eaton Socon bypass, 1971[5]
- M56 North Cheshire Motorway, five miles from Lymm to Bowdon, opened July 1975
Constructions:
- Coedty Reservoir dam
