Did you know?
Glasgow once had the largest car factory in Europe
Argyll Motors started in Glasgow's Bridgeton district in 1899, and grew so quickly that by 1906 it had built a vast new factory in Alexandria, on Loch Lomond, designed to produce 2,500 cars a year - at the time, the largest car factory in Europe outside the United States.
By 1907, Argyll was producing more cars annually than any other manufacturer on the continent, and briefly employed as many as 2,700 people. Two of its apprentices went on to fame in very different fields: Harry Ferguson, who invented the modern farm tractor, and John Logie Baird, the inventor of television.