Welcome back Tilbury Douglas, goodbye support services

By Dave Rogers2021-03-08T05:59:00

Tilbury Douglas Van - Cliff Lewis, Group Fleet Director

Some might see a name change as symbolic but with building at the heart of the government’s covid recovery plan, this one shows construction has come full circle

The news that Interserve’s construction and engineering business is reverting to its historic Tilbury Douglas name marks the end of a rather peculiar bout of industry self-loathing stretching back two decades.

As the 1990s ticked into a new millennium, a host of contractors decided they weren’t really contractors after all and were actually support services firms instead.

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