Industry Construction Headquarters Marlow Successor Trafalgar House | Fate Acquired Founded 1903 Defunct 1996 | |
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Trollope & Colls was once one of the United Kingdom's largest construction companies.
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History
The Company was formed out of the merger of George Trollope & Sons (founded by Joseph Trollope, a wallpaper hanger, in 1778) and Colls & Sons (founded by Benjamin Colls, a painter and decorator, in 1840).
The merged firm started to specialise in civil engineering and during World War I undertook pioneering work on reinforced concrete. In 1969 the Company was acquired by Trafalgar House. By 1994 it was the largest contractor in the United Kingdom by turnover.
On 18 April 1996 Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering group Kvaerner acquired Trafalgar House Construction, as the business became known, as part of a £904 million offer for Trafalgar House plc.
Major projects
Projects undertaken by the Company included: the Institute of Chartered Accountants completed in 1892, Claridges completed in 1897, the Baltic Exchange completed in 1903, Lloyds Bank in Lombard Street completed in 1931, Trawsfynndd power station completed in 1962 and the Stock Exchange Tower completed in 1972.