McGregor and Company Ltd was a heavy

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

company based in

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, New Zealand. Apart from building the notable steam ship '' Earnslaw'', the company also built early 20th century steam locomotives, of which there are no survivors. The company's factory was located in Thomas Burns Street, directly across the railway tracks from the city's

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