Sydney Green & Sons was a civil engineering contractor from Oxfordshire in England, which built sections of British motorways, notably the M2 in Kent, M5 and the M40, mostly in the Home Counties.Times Friday August 28, 1959, page 15Times Tuesday June 13, 1961, page 4
History It was formed by Colonel Sydney W. Green OBE on 19 February 1948.Birmingham Daily Post Monday 20 September 1965, page 8
The company floated on the London stock exchange in January 1959.Times Friday January 9, 1959, page 17
The company was bought on Monday 6 November 1967Times Tuesday November 7, 1967, page 24 for around £2.8m, and operated as a subsidiary.
In 1973, the company made a £904,000 loss, and the parent company withdrew from civil engineering.Times Friday January 12, 1973, page 18
Structure It held annual general meetings in Henley-on-Thames, where it was headquartered.Henley Standard September 2021
Construction A14 (former A45) - it was awarded a £2m contractTimes Wednesday March 17, 1971, page 20 on Tuesday 16 March 1971 for the Trimley bypass of the A45, by East Suffolk County Council M2 - the contract was awarded on Monday 12 June 1961 for the 26-mile motorway, where it built part of the £1,106,408 Section 1, as part of a consortium M4 - Heathrow Spur to Langley, four miles, £3.2m, with Cubitts, as a consortium,Times Tuesday April 16 1963, page 18 opened December 1964 M40 - as part of a consortium of two other contractors, it was offered the contract of £4,749,822 on Monday 29 June 1964Times Tuesday June 30, 1964, for the first eight miles of the A40(M) in Buckinghamshire, now the M40, where work started on 1 July 1964, to last 28 months,Times Monday September 21, 1964, page 19 and on Tuesday 12 January 1971 it was awarded a £290,274 contract to build the Knaves Beech Interchange junction 3 on the M40 at Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, near the Loudwater ViaductTimes Wednesday January 13, 1971, page 16 M5 - awarded the contract of £5.5m on Thursday 5 June 1969 for six miles of the motorway from Brookthorpe to Eastington, Stroud in Gloucestershire, to take two yearsTimes Friday June 6, 1969, page 25 in partnership with Costain Group Fleet services on the M3,Reading Evening Post Wednesday 29 March 1972, page 22 construction began in February 1972, opening in June 1973
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