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.

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.

It was based on the A572 in Walkden in Greater Manchester. It also had a site in at Birdholme in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Roads it built include:

A1(M) Birtley bypass
A1 Grantham bypass, October 1962
A1 Newark-on-Trent bypass, July 1964
A1 Improvement from North of Muskham to South of Carlton including Cromwell By-pass, January 1966
A1 Sutton-on-Trent, Weston, and Tuxford By-Pass, July 1967, £4m
A38 Alfreton-M1 bypass, opened in August 1969 as the A615
A46 dualling between Six Hills and Widmerpool, December 1965, £1.126 million
A1 Eaton Socon bypass, 1971
M56 North Cheshire Motorway, five miles from Lymm to Bowdon, opened July 1975

Constructions:

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