Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand was a British civil engineering and construction company, and responsible for some of Scotland's bridges.

History

Lehane Mackenzie & Shand Ltd was incorporated on 8 April 1974. In February 1981, the Alexander Shand group of companies was bought for £24.8m by

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.Morrison Construction Company Profile
Linkedin, 21 July 2009 In the 1980s, 80% of the company was sold to Charter Consolidated, with the Morrison family retaining 20% of the ownership.
The Independent, 29 August 1995 In 1989, the Morrison family repurchased the 80% of the business sold to Charter Consolidated earlier that decade, acquiring the businesses of Biggs Wall and Shand Construction in the process. In 1994, Morrison Construction plc was listed on the

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. In September 2000, Morrison Construction was purchased by AWG Plc (Morrison Construction was delisted). In March 2006, the construction division of the business was sold to

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and merged into its new parent. The Shand business was officially dissolved in October 2012.

Structure

Its main headquarters was south of

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in Derbyshire, on the

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has a site in the former headquarters. The company was a subsidiary of Alexander Shand (Holdings) Ltd. Alexander Shand was a former President of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, and made a CBE in the

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Gas pipelines

It had a pipeline division on Kiln Lane in

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; this became MK-Shand, when merged with M.K. River Constructie Maatschappij of the Netherlands, and built gas pipelines for the

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in the early 1970s. It did much work in the

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Products

Roads

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in London * M1, Beechtrees to Berrygrove, junctions 7 to 5, (built as

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and Fitzpatrick with Shand) * M5, junctions 8-9 ( M50) to

Tewkesbury Tewkesbury ( ) is a medieval market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England. The town has significant history in the Wars of the Roses and grew since the building of Tewkesbury Abbey. It stands at the confluence of the Riv ...

, built as Christiani-Shand) * M56

Preston Brook Preston Brook is a village and civil parish in the borough of Halton, a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cheshire in North West England. It is located to the south-east of Runcorn and south-west of Warrington, adjacent to the M56 ...

Hapsford Hapsford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located on the A5117 road, with He ...

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* M6 Ansty to M1 at

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, Contract A * M6 north of

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(junction 38 for A685) to

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(built as Christiani-Shand) * M74

Larkhall Larkhall ( sco, Larkhauch, gd, Taigh na h-Uiseig) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, around southeast of Glasgow. It is twinned with Seclin in northern France. Larkhall sits on high ground between the River Clyde to the East and the ...

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(built as

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-Shand) *

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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, £5m first stage from Whitchurch bypass to

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, 3.25 miles, to open mid-1971 (built as Christiani-Shand)''Derby Evening Telegraph'' Tuesday 18 March 1969, page 12

Bridges

Erskine Bridge The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland. The bridge connects West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire and can be used by all types of motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrian ...

, ( A898),

West Dunbartonshire West Dunbartonshire ( sco, Wast Dunbairtonshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar, ) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the west of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's commuter town ...

and

Renfrewshire Renfrewshire () ( sco, Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn Friù) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Renfr ...

, opened July 1971 *

Kylesku Bridge The Kylesku Bridge (officially known since 2019 by its Gaelic name Drochaid a' Chaolais Chumhaing) is a distinctively curved concrete box girder bridge in north-west Scotland that crosses the Loch a' Chàirn Bhàin in Sutherland. It is listed a ...

( A894),

Sutherland Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...

, opened July 1984

Reservoirs

* Errwood Reservoir (£1.5m contract in March 1964) *

Llandegfedd Reservoir Llandegfedd Reservoir (also known as ''Llandegveth Reservoir'') is a large 174 hectare water supply reservoir and is eight miles (13 km) north of Newport in south Wales. The reservoir is very close to Pontypool, Cwmbran and Usk, with t ...

(£843,000 contract in March 1961)

References

External links

Grace's Guide
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