Marples Ridgway and Partners
Marples Ridgway was a British civil engineering company
1948 Founded by Reginald Ridgway and accountant Ernest Marples. Marples later became the Minister of Transport.
Projects included:
1948 Skelton Grange Power Station
1956 Brunswick Wharf Power Station
1956 Allt na Lairige Dam, Argyllshire
1959 Chiswick Flyover
1961 Hammersmith Flyover
- Port Esquivel shipping terminal, Jamaica
1965 the company was taken over by Bath and Portland Group[1]
1968 Planned to extend its activities from civil engineering (with its somewhat lumpy contracts) to general building[2]
1969 Bath and Portland integrated its building and civil engineering activities, forming 2 new subsidiaries: Marples Ridgway would be the new subsidiary carrying out all civil engineering work; Marples Ridgway (Building) would be the subsidiary controlling all building activities; Dudley Coles Long would be a subsidiary of Marples Ridgway (Building) [3]