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.Page 16, The McGregor Story: The First Thirty Years, By Roy Case
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 1964Winter 1964 Concrete Quarterly 63 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 A615Nottingham Evening Post Friday 18 July 1969, page 12 A46 dualling between Six Hills (B676) and Widmerpool (A606), December 1965, £1.126 million A1 Eaton Socon bypass, 1971Hansard November 1987 M56 North Cheshire Motorway, five miles from Lymm to Bowdon, opened July 1975
Constructions: Coedty Reservoir dam
Sport It founded the McGregor Trophy in Golf in 1982, initially held at Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club.
References
External links 1965 British Pathé film showing construction of the Cromwell by-pass in Nottinghamshire