Entries tagged

‘industry’

Event	Date
Timex calls time on its Dundee factory	28th August
Dozens of miners killed at Udston Colliery	28th May
Construction begins at Sutherland Spaceport	5th May
Hillman Imp rolls off production line in Linwood	2nd May
Titan becomes the world’s first electric crane	24th April
Singer factory workers go on strike	21st March

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Death of engineer John Rennie the Elder

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Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye

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The Queen Mother unveils the Commando Monument

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Cumbernauld is designated a New Town

28 December

The Tay Bridge disaster

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