Merz & McLellan

Merz & McLellan
Industry	Electrical engineering consultants
Fate	Acquired
Successor	Parsons Brinckerhoff
Founded	1902
Defunct	2000
Headquarters	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Key people	Malcolm Kennedy (Chairman)[1]

Merz and McLellan was a leading British electrical engineering consultancy based in Newcastle.

History

The firm was founded by Charles Merz and William McLellan in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1902 when McLellan joined Merz's existing firm established in 1899.[2] The partnership was instrumental in designing the United Kingdom's first three-phase electrical supply network, on Tyneside,[2] and for the next century continued to advise other Commonwealth countries on setting up their own networks.

In 1995 the partnership merged with the Parsons Brinckerhoff consultancy, and in 2000 the new owners announced that the Merz & McLellan name would be discontinued.[3]

In 2010, Mott MacDonald consultancy announced [4] that it had bought Merz and McLellan South Africa.[5]

Selected contracts

1901: Neptune Bank Power Station
1904: Carville Power Station, Wallsend, UK
1908 & 1912: Electrification of Melbourne suburban railways in Victoria, Australia.[6]
1911: Electrification of North Eastern Railway (UK)
1914-18: Mobile power stations for the battlefield[7]
1921: North Tees Power Station
1925: Report on electrification of the New Zealand suburban systems in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.[8] (including the Lyttelton railway line between Lyttelton and Christchurch [9]
1933-51: Dunston B power station, Dunston, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
1940s: Orlando Power Station, Johannesburg, South Africa
1953: Blyth A Power Station, Cambois, Northumberland, UK
1960s: Bell Bay Power Station, Tasmania, Australia
1962: Blyth B Power Station
1969 Longannet Power Station
1980-1993: Kariba South dam hydroelectric upgrade
1989: Subiya oil-fired power station, Kuwait

Merz & McLellan firms still independent

Sinclair Knight Merz (Australia)[10]

References

An exciting time for electrical engineers The Independent, 22 January 1998
Charles Merz - Lessons from Boston Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Engineering & Technology
Speech by Dr Malcolm Kennedy Archived 2012-08-04 at Archive.today The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004
Mott MacDonald acquires African power consultant Merz and McLellan
Merz & McLellan South Africa
Churchman, Geoffrey B. (1995). Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney & Wellington: IPL Books. pp. 45, 46. ISBN 0-908876-79-3.
Tyne and Wear Archives
Churchman, Geoffrey B. (1995). Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney & Wellington: IPL Books. pp. 16, 17. ISBN 0-908876-79-3.
Lyttelton Railway Tunnel
Sinclair Knight Merz Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] An exciting time for electrical engineers The Independent, 22 January 1998

[merz-2] Charles Merz - Lessons from Boston Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Engineering & Technology

[3] Speech by Dr Malcolm Kennedy Archived 2012-08-04 at Archive.today The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004

[4] Mott MacDonald acquires African power consultant Merz and McLellan

[5] Merz & McLellan South Africa

[6] Churchman, Geoffrey B. (1995). Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney & Wellington: IPL Books. pp. 45, 46. ISBN 0-908876-79-3.

[7] Tyne and Wear Archives

[8] Churchman, Geoffrey B. (1995). Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney & Wellington: IPL Books. pp. 16, 17. ISBN 0-908876-79-3.

[9] Lyttelton Railway Tunnel

[10] Sinclair Knight Merz Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine