Sydney Green & Sons
Sydney Green & Sons was a civil engineering contractor from Oxfordshire in England, which built sections of British motorways, notably the M2 in Kent, M5 and the M40, mostly in the Home Counties.[1][2]
History
[edit]It was formed by Colonel Sydney W. Green OBE on 19 February 1948.[3]
The company floated on the London stock exchange in January 1959.[4]
The company was bought on Monday 6 November 1967[5] for around £2.8m, and operated as a subsidiary.
In 1973, the company made a £904,000 loss, and the parent company withdrew from civil engineering.[6]
Structure
[edit]It held annual general meetings in Henley-on-Thames, where it was headquartered.[7]
Construction
[edit]- A14 (former A45) - it was awarded a £2m contract[8] on Tuesday 16 March 1971 for the Trimley bypass of the A45, by East Suffolk County Council
- M2 - the contract was awarded on Monday 12 June 1961 for the 26-mile motorway, where it built part of the £1,106,408 Section 1, as part of a consortium
- M4 - Heathrow Spur to Langley, four miles, £3.2m, with Cubitts, as a consortium,[9] opened December 1964
- M40 - as part of a consortium of two other contractors, it was offered the contract of £4,749,822 on Monday 29 June 1964[10] for the first eight miles of the A40(M) in Buckinghamshire, now the M40, where work started on 1 July 1964, to last 28 months,[11] and on Tuesday 12 January 1971 it was awarded a £290,274 contract to build the Knaves Beech Interchange junction 3 on the M40 at Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, near the Loudwater Viaduct[12]
- M5 - awarded the contract of £5.5m on Thursday 5 June 1969 for six miles of the motorway from Brookthorpe to Eastington, Stroud in Gloucestershire, to take two years[13] in partnership with Costain Group
- Fleet services on the M3,[14] construction began in February 1972, opening in June 1973
References
[edit]- ^ Times Friday August 28, 1959, page 15
- ^ Times Tuesday June 13, 1961, page 4
- ^ Birmingham Daily Post Monday 20 September 1965, page 8
- ^ Times Friday January 9, 1959, page 17
- ^ Times Tuesday November 7, 1967, page 24
- ^ Times Friday January 12, 1973, page 18
- ^ Henley Standard September 2021
- ^ Times Wednesday March 17, 1971, page 20
- ^ Times Tuesday April 16 1963, page 18
- ^ Times Tuesday June 30, 1964,
- ^ Times Monday September 21, 1964, page 19
- ^ Times Wednesday January 13, 1971, page 16
- ^ Times Friday June 6, 1969, page 25
- ^ Reading Evening Post Wednesday 29 March 1972, page 22