Robert McGregor & Sons

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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.^[1]

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.

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

Roads it built include:

• A1(M) Birtley bypass (£2.5 million)
• A1 Grantham bypass, 1962
• A1 Newark-on-Trent bypass, 1964^[3]
• 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^[4]
• M56 North Cheshire Motorway

Constructions:

• Coedty Reservoir dam

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

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

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