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
Charter Consolidated.[1]
Morrison Construction had been founded by the Morrison family in 1948 in
Tain,
Scotland.[2] In the 1980s, 80% of the company was sold to Charter Consolidated, with the Morrison family retaining 20% of the ownership.[3] 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
London Stock Exchange.[3] In September 2000, Morrison Construction was purchased by AWG Plc (Morrison Construction was delisted).[4] In March 2006, the construction division of the business was sold to
Galliford Try[5] and merged into its new parent. The Shand business was officially dissolved in October 2012.[6]
Structure
Its main headquarters was south of
Rowsley in Derbyshire, on the
A6 road.[7]Derbyshire County Council has a site in the former headquarters. The company was a subsidiary of Alexander Shand (Holdings) Ltd.[8] Alexander Shand was a former President of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, and made a CBE in the
1984 New Year Honours.[9]
Gas pipelines
It had a pipeline division on Kiln Lane in
Immingham; this became MK-Shand, when merged with M.K. River Constructie Maatschappij of the Netherlands, and built gas pipelines for the
Gas Council in the early 1970s.[10]
Major projects
Roads
Park Lane in London (built as
Cubitts and Fitzpatrick with Shand) completed in 1963[11]
M1, Beechtrees to Berrygrove, junctions 7 to 5, (built as Cubitts and Fitzpatrick with Shand) completed in 1959[12]
^Stears, H.S. (January 1985). "The Kylesku Bridge - Design and Construction". The Journal of the Institution of Highways and Transportation & HTTA. 32 (1): 16–20.