Glasgow and its Environs. A literary, commercial and social review past and present with a description of its leading mercantile houses and commercial enterprises
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1891
- Pages 358pp; illus
- Publisher Stratten & Stratten
- Place Published London
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Business gazetteer. Short accounts of c250 businesses. Mostly Glasgow based [pp42-232] but some elsewhere in Scotland - Beith, Largs, Rothesay; Dunoon; Campbeltown; Dumfries; Oban; Fort William; etc.Some are longer than others - eg Alexander Stephens & Co Ltd, Govan, shipbuilders [pp44-6]; Copland & Lye, Glasgow, warehousemen [pp70-2]; John Robertson, Glasgow, coachbuilders [pp63-5]; James White, Glasgow, manufacturer of electrical instruments etc [pp108-9]