Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Co
Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Co Ltd. of Finwell House, 26 Finsbury Square, London E.C.2., Dredging Contractors
of Queen Anne's Chambers, Tothill Street, Westminster, London, S.W. (1914)
Successor to Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Co (1906)
1914 Business: Dredging, Lighterage, Quarry and Marine Contracting. Contractors to H.M. Government (Admiralty), and the leading Port and Harbour Boards, Railway, Shipping, and other companies throughout the United Kingdom; also to the French Government and to Railway and Port Cos. in the Argentine.
1963 Subsidiary Companies:
- Tilbury Construction Co Ltd. of Twyford, Berkshire.
- Bensted Contractors Ltd. of Maidstone, Kent.
- G. Tate and Son Ltd. of Erith, Kent.
- Tate Plant Hire Ltd. of Erith, Kent.
- Concrete Piling (Successors) Ltd. of London, EC2.
- East Anglian Roadstone and Transport Co Ltd. of Norwich, Norfolk.
- G. and G. F. Maidment (Poole) Ltd. of Poole, Dorset.
- Wivenhoe Sand Stone and Gravel Co Ltd. of Wivenhoe, Essex.
1963 Formed a joint venture company with Westminster Dredging Group[2]
1964 Sold the dredging fleet to Westminster Dredging as well as the share in the joint venture company[3]
by 1980s Tilbury Group was a civil engineer and building group
1991 Tilbury Group Public Limited Company acquired Robert M. Douglas Holdings PLC; the enlarged group was renamed Tilbury Douglas plc[4]
2001 Group renamed Interserve