Sir John Jackson

1938.

of 53 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, SW

1876 Company established by John Jackson.

1898 Incorporated as a limited company Sir John Jackson Ltd

1914 Engineers and contractors for public works.

Some of the principal works carried out by this firm were:

• the substructure of the Tower Bridge,
• the extension of the Admiralty breakwater at Dover,
• the commercial harbour at Dover,
• the last eight miles of the Manchester Ship Canal,
• the deep water lock at Barry, near Cardiff,
• the commercial graving docks at Barry,
• the extension of Swansea Docks,
• the dockyard at Keyham, Devonport, for the British Admiralty,
• the harbour at Simonstown, South Africa,
• the north breakwater at the mouth of the River Tyne for the British Admiralty,
• the new harbour at Singapore for the British Government,
• the graving dock and improvement of the Arsenal at Ferrol for the Spanish Governemnt,
• the Arica-La Paz Railway over the Andes from Arica on the coast of Chile to La Paz, Bolivia (rising to an altitude of 14,500 ft.),
• the dam across the Euphrates,
• the irrigation works in Mesopotamia for the Turkish Government,
• the breakwater at Victoria, British Columbia.

1926 Incorporated with The British Construction Company, the business of Percy Westacott.

Later became a subsidiary of the Bernard Sunley Investment Trust, providing civil engineering

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