Producing armaments in Glasgow
(NRS reference: BR/LIB(S)5/63 pp 42 and 50)

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At the time of the outbreak of War, the Company decided to utilise two new buildings for the production of War material… One of these buildings was allocated to the production of shells and was known as the Mons Shell Factory. Part of the other building, the Marne Factory, was fitted with furnaces, hydraulic presses, electric plant etc. for the production of shell forgings… The contract was with the Ministry of Munitions. 

…The total number of shells of all sizes produced in the ‘Mons’ was 864,551. The output exceeded all expectations. The number of employees in October 1916 was 683 women and 313 men and at October 1918, had increased to 1,136 women and 405 men. The foremen and tool setters were all men. 

Hyde Park Works, Atlas Works, and Queens Park Works built tanks and planes from finished parts supplied by various makers.

Torpedo tubes, military bridges and artificial limbs were manufactured as well as locomotive engines for the home and foreign markets.

The total invoice value of the output during the War from the works of the North British Locomotive Company Ltd., was approximately £16 million sterling.