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| Sponsor | Educational Films of Scotland |
| Production Company | Park Film Studios |
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| Scottish Screen Archive collection |
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The industries of Central Scotland; dairy and
arable farming, steelmaking, engineering, textiles, coal mining and
shipbuilding. Show full synopsis
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As the traditional heavy industries such as
shipbuilding and locomotive construction declined in the 1960s, new lighter
industries were developed. New industrial estates were built to accommodate a
range of new factories producing goods for the modern era.
Dundee had boasted the world's largest jute
textile industry (see Dundee, 1939), but as this declined in the 1950s new
modern industries had to be attracted in to fill the employment gap. Industrial estates were built around the city and new businesses such as National Cash Registers, Holochrome and Timex were wooed in.
Kenneth Broom
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Extract (0:54)
