"Scotts' Men" 300 years of Scott's of Greenock

Founded in 1711, Scotts’ of Greenock became a world renowned shipbuilding and engineering company. Under the guidance of one family it was responsible for over 260 years of employment and successful economic development in the local towns of Inverclyde.
The McLean Museum staged an Exhibition in the summer of 2011 to celebrate what would have been 300 years of Scotts’ existence. The material loaned and donated by Scotts' workers, relatives and others has
been gathered together in this book, alongside archive material. This is the first commercially available history of the company and uses the oral testimony of the workers to tell the story of this family owned firm and its sad demise.
Shipbuilding may now largely be gone on the lower reaches of the Clyde but the pride and importance of its place in Scottish Economic History is not to be underestimated. The Scotts’ made Greenock and Greenock made Scotts’.
This book illustrates the importance of Scotts and shows the effect the firm has had on the generations of workers and their families in this part of Scotland. It will be an important resource for local historians and those interested in how a small fishing village can grow into a world centre of industrial construction, led by a family of dynamic individuals.

About the authors:
William Kane served his Engineering Apprenticeship in Scotts’, progressing to the Engine Works Drawing Office and then to the Engine Works Design Office. He worked there until the closure. 

Vincent Gillen is the Curator of Social History at the McLean Museum & Art Gallery in Greenock. His father
worked in Scotts’ for over 40 years as an electrician.
For more information on Scotts' and other local shipyards please go to www.inverclydeshipbuilding.co.uk
There you can add your own reminiscences, photographs etc..