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The bank's principal office was established in Virginia Street, Glasgow in 1842 and moved to 21 Glassford Street in 1851. [3] In 1855 it moved to a huge building on Trongate at the corner of Albion St. [ 4 ] [ a ] [ 5 ] During the Panic of 1857 , the bank had to suspend operation but later reopened and continued trading. [ 6 ]
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Despite the crisis caused by the City of Glasgow Bank's collapse in 1878, growth continued and by the end of the 19th century it was one of the cities known as the "Second City of the Empire" and was producing more than half Britain's tonnage of shipping [47] and a quarter of all locomotives in the world. [48]
Glasgow: 1962 Power generation equipment P A Airdrie Savings Bank: Financials Banks Airdrie: 1835 Bank P A Albion Motors: Consumer goods Automobiles Glasgow: 1899 Car manufacturer P A Alexander Dennis: Industrials Commercial vehicles & trucks Larbert: 2004 Bus manufacturer P A Alliance Trust: Financials Banks Dundee: 1888 Bank P A Arnold Clark ...
For 19 years Lord Moncreiff occupied the judicial bench, presiding over the trials in the justiciary court of Chantrelle (1878), the City of Glasgow Bank directors (1878), the dynamitards (1883), and the crofters (1886). [6] Extrajudicially Moncreiff was occupied in many other matters.
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The first Glasgow Savings Bank was formed in 1815 but, like the Edinburgh Savings Bank, it became largely moribund and was replaced by a new institution. [1] Since 1817, England and Wales savings banks had been allowed to invest with the National Debt Commissioners on beneficial terms and an Act of 1835 extended this right to Scotland.