Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand

From Graces Guide

of Matlock, Civil engineering contractors

1913 Company formed

R. Lehane and Co[1]

R. Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand

Lehane, MacKenzie and Shand

Worked on building the M1, Doncaster bypass, the Park Lane improvement scheme in London, the Heads of the Valley road in Wales, etc[2]

1964 Contract to build an impounding reservoir at Errwood in the Goyt Valley for Stockport Corporation[3]

1964 Awarded contract for part of the motorway between Carlisle and Glasgow, in conjunction with Christiani and Nielsen

1967 Adverts featured the name Shand[4]

1970 Mr A. T. B. Shand was chairman[5]

1974 Subsidiaries included:[6]

  • Alexander Shand Services
  • Shand R & D
  • Shand Civil Engineering

1976 Selection Trust acquired 90 percent of Alexander Shand (Holdings), a group of private companies involved in open cast coal mining[7]

1981 Charter Consolidated acquired Alexander Shand (Holdings), the engineering, construction and mining group[8]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 26 February 1987
  2. The Times May 13, 1964
  3. The Times Mar. 9, 1964
  4. The Times June 6, 1967
  5. The Times Oct. 19, 1970
  6. The Times June 28, 1974
  7. The Times May 29, 1976
  8. The Times Feb. 26, 1981