Tour Scotland Video Classic Arrol Johnston Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Arrol Johnston Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. Arrol-Johnston, later known as Arrol-Aster, was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain. The company also developed the world's first "off-road" vehicle for the Egyptian government, and another designed to travel on ice and snow for Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. George Johnston was by training a locomotive engineer from Neilson, Reid and Company Limited of Springburn, Glasgow. Johnston was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation Tramways in 1894 to build an experimental steam-powered tramcar to replace their fleet of horse-drawn trams.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Beardmore Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Beardmore Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid 1930s. It was founded and owned by William Beardmore, later Lord Invernairn, after whom the Beardmore Glacier was named.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Galloway Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Galloway Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. Galloway was a Scottish car maker founded in 1920 as a subsidiary company to Arrol-Johnston. It was based at first at Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire, and from 1923 at Heathall, Dumfries. It closed in 1928. The company was very unusual in the world of car making in that it was largely run and staffed by women. For a while the cars were advertised as " a car made by ladies for others of their sex ".

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Old Photographs Cottages Plockton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Plockton, Wester Ross, Scotland. Most of the buildings date from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The village is a popular tourist resort, especially because the TV series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries TV series.





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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Isle Of Lewis Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched crofters cottage on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Lewis has a Presbyterian tradition and a rich history. It was once part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different from elsewhere in Scotland, with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.



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