Scottish Machine Tool Corporation
Scottish Machine Tool Corporation of Glasgow.
1937 Public company formed[1] as an amalgamation of: James Bennie and Sons Ltd., G. and A. Harvey, Glasgow; Loudon Brothers Ltd, Johnstone; Craig and Donald Ltd, Johnstone; and James Allan Senior and Sons Ltd, Glasgow; the 4 machine tool companies had been profitable until 1921 when there was a recession in the heavy industries they served; all retained their separate autonomy, even though they had amalgamated. [2]
1961 Manufacturers of heavy and medium duty machine and shipyard tools, planing machines, turning lathes, wheel lathes and railway plant, tapping, boring and milling machines; power presses, press brakes and special purpose machine. 650 group employees. [3]
1965 Merged with Bennetts Machine Tool Centre and the Manchester Machinery Centre[4], private companies controlled by Andrew Bennett and Harold Creighton.
1965 Reverse take-over by Andrew Bennett and Harold Creighton (who had previously owned Tate Machine Tool Co and later bought The Spectator magazine)[5]
1968 Acquired by Unochrome International[6]
1974 Wilkins and Mitchell bought the Glasgow machine tool business of Scottish Machine Tool Corporation, wholly-owned offshoot of Unochrome Intl[7]