There are two reasons why Glasgow shipbuilding eventually failed. Failure of the Yards to modernise effectively, and the refusal in the final times, of the workforce to continue to live in poverty and be exploited by the rich.
Very interesting thanks. A book I'm reading tells me Glasgow was a story told throughout the British shipbuilding industry. Interesting that a state enforced merger of the entire Glaswegian industry played a part in its ultimate demise. The same story is true for the British car industry after it was consolidated into British Leyland. I guess politicians are poor micromanagers.
It was the guy from Scott's Greenock showed the Japanese how to build ships in a modular system and mirror image building for muti-ship contracts for identical sister ships,yet he never upgraded his own yards to do the same. I served my time in Scotts Cartsburn and Klondyke yards(1978-1982),the heavy machinery was ancient then!
Well presented Glasgow is gradually improving with new housing new company's moving in and retail is main employer in the city it has taken Glasgow 60 years to recover but Glasgow also re invents itself there are pockets of poverty still within the city that needs addressed Glasgow is a very vibrant city the population of greater Glasgow is over 1.2 million more people have just moved out towards the suburbs there are multiple regeration projects ongoing today and for the future this will take time glaswegians are very good people and tourists are now coming to Glasgow to see this great city
The Cunard Queens of Clydebank disgree. The RMS Queen Mary - Still holds the record for the most people carried on any ship in history at any given time, 16,000 people. Also transported a significant fraction of the US troops that fought in WW2 alongside the RMS Queen Elizabeth. The RMS Queen Elizabeth - Still holds the record for the largest riveted ship ever built. The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) - Still holds the record for the most distance ever travelled by any ship in history, 6,000,000+ miles. And that's just 3 of the 30,000+ ships built on this river. In 1913 we produced 34% of all shipping by tonnage in the world. That's 1/3rd of global shipping output all on one river.
Thank you for the exciting video. Hope you make more. It is sad, although not in Glasgow, the parody of the two Scottish administration ferries being built in Greenock. The cost to the taxpayer of Scotland’s ferry fiasco firm is approaching a ‘scandalous’ half a billion pounds, five years late, still not finished.
No, during Queen Victoria’s rule, Glasgow was named as The Second City of the British Empire. Other contenders were Manchester and Birmingham. The only thing that Liverpool gave the former empire was ‘Cilla Black’.
