Robert McGregor & Sons

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]

Robert McGregor & Sons Ltd

Company type	Limited company
Industry	Civil engineering
Headquarters	Chaddock Lane, Boothstown, Walkden, Salford, England
Area served	United Kingdom

History

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

Sport

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