Charles Brand and Son
of Glasgow. aka C. Brand and Son
Railway contractors
of 33 Welbeck Street, London W.1. Civil Engineering contractors.
See Charles Brand and his son James Brand
c.1852 Purchased a crane from Bowser and Cameron, followed by several more; this type became known as the Glasgow Crane.[1]
1889 Completed the contract for Cowdenbeath and Kelty section for the North British Railway.[2]
1908 Rosyth Naval Base
1909 Contract for extension of Kirkaldy Harbour
1926 Built the tunnels and installed escalators at the new Clapham South, Balham and Trinity Road stations for the Morden extension of the City and South London Railway, on the London Underground network.
1927 Contract for the construction of a new entrance to the South-West India Dock, London
1930 The company was one of a group of 6 contractors who had agreed to fund putting a bill through Parliament and obtaining necessary geological information for the Channel Tunnel Co and had agreed to build the British half of the tunnel[3]
1939 Work in connection with the proposed Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel
of Northumberland Dock Road, Wallsend (1973)
1973 Responsible for the contract from the Northumbrian River Authority for the Tyne Siphon Tunnel.[4]