J. L. Eve Construction

J. L. Eve Construction was a civil engineering company from south London.

History

Chain Home towers at Bawdsey in Suffolk in May 1945

It was formed on 8 February 1930[1] by John Leonard Eve (3 February 1887 - 25 June 1954)[2] from Aveley in Essex. In 1924 he was appointed as the Chief Engineer for the river crossings of the Scottish area of the Central Electricity Board (CEB, which existed from 1926 to 1947). He worked with Robert Chandler-Brown. The CEGB came into existence in 1957. J.L. Eve left a son and a daughter.

Chain Home and National Grid

In the 1930s it built steel-lattice towers for the new National Grid and for the Chain Home transmitters. The electrical cable was often supplied by Pirelli UK of Eastleigh in Hampshire (now Prysmian Group).

400kV transmission line near Offley in Hertfordshire, which traverses from Chalton, Bedfordshire (Sundon Substation, next to the M1) to St Ippolyts (Wymondley Transforming Station, next to the A602)

Ownership

From 1982 to 1988 it was known as Eve Construction. It would later be known as Eve Group plc from April 1988, then Eve Group Ltd and Babcock Networks Ltd from 2004. It was bought by the Peterhouse Group plc in January 2000.

Babcock Networks, its successor, is situated off the M1 at Sherwood Park at Annesley, next to E.ON UK; its training base is at the former RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire.

Sponsorship

From 1982 to 2000, it sponsored the Surrey Championship (cricket), being replaced by Castle Lager.

Structure

It was based at Minster House on Plough Lane in Tooting. It was based south of Summerstown on the B235, north of Haydons Road railway station (on the A218).

Divisions

Eve Trakway

Later divisions of Eve Group were:

Eve Arclive, formed on 18 June 1976 - electrical contracting, later it became Eve Power
Trakway, later known as Eve Trakway and now known as Live (Trakway) and based in Bramley Vale and Doe Lea in Ault Hucknall near Glapwell in Derbyshire off the A617, east of the Heath Interchange M1 junction 29, and supplies crowd control barriers and temporary fencing. It is owned by Ashtead Group, who trade as A-Plant. In 2002 Eve Trakway built the Super Fortress security fence for the Glastonbury Festival. Eve Construction Trakway was at Lower Heyford, then moved to Sutton-in-Ashfield in the 1970s.
Eve Telecom

Eve Transcom, comprised

Eve Transmission - carried out construction and repair of transmission lines for the National Grid
Eve Cellular - in late 1999, it had built over 7,000 mobile phone base stations throughout the 1990s
Eve Engineering Design Services
Eve Structures

Products

Emley Moor wreckage in March 1969

It built structural steel fabricated buildings or structures.

The original Emley Moor steel-tube mast, which collapsed on 19 March 1969.[3]
Aust Severn Powerline Crossing (488 ft tall) - the longest powerline crossing in the United Kingdom at 1700 m (5,310 ft) between towers (built around 1955)[4]
Bilsdale transmitting station on the North York Moors
Electrical substations

Powerlines

275kV line from Beauly to Kintore, Aberdeenshire in 1960, for the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board[5]
Llantarnam to Crumlin[6]

References

Companies House
John Leonard Eve
MB21 Emley Moor
Highways and Bridges and Engineering Works, Volume 23, 1955
The Electrical Journal Vol 164, 1960
The Engineer, Vol 195, 1953

External links

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[1] Companies House

[2] John Leonard Eve

[3] MB21 Emley Moor

[4] Highways and Bridges and Engineering Works, Volume 23, 1955

[5] The Electrical Journal Vol 164, 1960

[6] The Engineer, Vol 195, 1953