Manufacturing, Industry & Commerce 
“The Glasgow Herald”, founded in 1775, is older than the London “Times”.
When it was built the Royal Glasgow Technical College was the largest building of its kind in the world.
This will come as a surprise to many:- “Glasgow’s diversity of industries is believed to be now greater than that of London. More than 2000 different species of article are manufactured here. Bathroom fittings and bagpipes, Christmas cards and steam hammers, warships and washers, handkerchiefs and steel chimneys, colliery cages and nurses’ caps, football bladders and marine boilers, filters and shop fronts’ ladies’ hose and hydraulic engines, sporrans, drying sheds, railway carriages, pyjamas and bannocks.” – “Glasgow, Kyle and Galloway”, edited by Theo Lang, p.9.
Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle are world famous. Scottish seed potatoes are world famous. Half the fish or nearly half landed in British ports are caught by Scottish fishing boats. Mallaig is the world’s largest herring port. Scotland’s fishing banks are the envy of Western Europe. Trees grow faster in Scotland than in England. Scotland has greater timber potential.
The Clyde is still one of the world’s leading shipbuilding centres. The Scottish textile industry is world famous, the famous “tweed” cloth: and of course tartan was a Scottish invention!
Britain’s leading export industry is Scottish whisky. It is reckoned that all the gold in the Bank of England could not buy the whisky in bond.
Scotland has the highest sheep population in the world, in the Scottish Borders.
The largest graving dock in the world for the fabrication of oil production platforms is at Nigg. Britain’s first pulp and paper mill – the brainchild of Dr. T.K. Frankeel, born in Austria – is at Fort William in Scotland.
Conceived by Lord Kelvin, the first hydro-electric station and aluminium smelter in Britain was built at Foyers on Loch Ness in 1894.
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