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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.

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

1. Contracts in 1968
2. Page 16, The McGregor Story: The First Thirty Years, By Roy Case
3. Winter 1964 Concrete Quarterly 63 Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
4. Hansard November 1987

External links

• 1965 British Pathé film showing construction of the Cromwell by-pass in Nottinghamshire

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