Sir Lindsay Parkinson
| Public company | |
| Industry | Civil engineering |
| Fate | Bought by Fairclough |
| Successor | Leonard Fairclough & Son (AMEC) |
| Founded | 13 July 1937 |
| Founder | Albert Lindsay Parkinson |
| Defunct | 4 September 1974 |
| Headquarters | Lindsay House, 88 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 |
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Area served
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UK, Australia, Egypt, Cyprus, Portugal |
| Services | Road construction |
| Subsidiaries | Wentworth Estate |
Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Ltd, commonly known as Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co. Ltd or Lindsay Parkinson was a large civil engineering company in the UK.
The original name of the firm, registered about 1877, was Jacob Parkinson and Company, and Jacob operated a joiner's shop in Blackpool. His four sons worked in the business, one of whom was the eponymous Lindsay Parkinson. Joinery developed into general building work and in the early 1900s Parkinson's contracts included the Talbot Hotel and Alhambra Theatre in Blackpool. A contract to build the Theatre Royal in Newcastle led to the opening of an office in that city; a number of theatres were built in other towns in the north and the midlands. By the time of the First War, the Company had a London office.
The First War expanded the range of contracts, which now included aerodromes and railway sidings. When peace came, the firm became involved in large-scale housing schemes (including the Parkinson-Kahn reinforced concrete house) and a wider range of civil engineering work – including new trunk roads. Lindsay Parkinson was knighted for public services and the Company took on his new name.
On 13 July 1937, it was incorporated as a public company, technically known as Sir Lindsay Parkinson Holdings Limited. The shares were issued by Robert Benson & Co. Ltd (later Kleinwort Benson from 1961), based on 22 Old Broad Street.
The Directors of the company were Lt-Col George Westhead Parkinson MC (the chairman), Albert Edward Parkinson (managing director), Edward Parkinson, and Captain Constantine Evelyn Benson DSO.
It was first based at Lindsay House, 171 Shaftesbury Avenue (moving to the company-built offices at 6, Lambeth Road, at the bottom of Waterloo Road (St. George's Circus) in 1955) on the site of a defunct nunnery. There was also an office at Talbot Saw Mills in Blackpool.
In May 1939, the company lent £200,000 to the British government, on an interest-free loan. During the Second World War the company was one of the contractors engaged in building the Mulberry Harbour units.
On 20 December 1943, the Chairman of the company, Lt-Col G.W.Parkinson, was killed, after his car hit a lorry at Bedfont on the Great South-West Road. He was aged 69. The managing director since 1937, A.E.Parkinson, became chairman.
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