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Industry
  
Civil engineering

Headquarters
  
Walkden, United Kingdom

Area served
  
United Kingdom

Type
  
Limited company

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.

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History

It was founded in Manchester in 1927.

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, 1962
  • A1 Newark-on-Trent bypass, 1964
  • 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
  • M56 North Cheshire Motorway

    • Constructions:

  • Coedty Reservoir dam

    • Sport

    It founded the McGregor Trophy in Golf in 1982, initially held at Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club.

    References

    Robert McGregor & Sons Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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