David Mowat Maclay
David Mowat Maclay ( -1922), director of David Colville and Sons
1922 Obituary [1]
DAVID M. MACLAY died on April 30, 1922, at Glasgow.
He was director of Messrs. David Colville & Sons, Ltd., of Motherwell.
He entered the service of the Clydebridge Steel Company in 1887, and in 1894 he was appointed works manager for the Manchester Steel Nut and Tube Company, Ltd., resigning this post four years later in order to visit the United States for the purpose of studying American steelworks practice.
In 1899 he joined David Colville & Sons as works manager, at Dalzell, a post which he occupied for over seventeen years. He was appointed a director of the company in 1913, and on the death of Mr. David Colville in 1916 the general supervision and control of the company's three principal works at Dalzell, Glengarnock, and Clydebridge devolved upon him.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1900.