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The company was founded by Arnold Clark, who opened his first showroom in 1954 in Park Road in Glasgow. In 1963, Arnold Clark Finance was launched. [3] In the 1960s the company began rental vehicles and in 1968 took over Grant, Melrose and Tennant giving the company an accident repair centre. [4]
Sir John Arnold Clark (27 November 1927 – 10 April 2017) was a Scottish billionaire businessman. Clark opened a showroom in Glasgow in 1954 and found some success selling cars. He expanded his business and Arnold Clark Automobiles became a nationwide chain of motor dealerships and the largest privately owned business in Scotland.
Westway Retail Park, Wardpark near Castlecary. Wardpark is an industrial estate in Cumbernauld, Scotland split by the M80 motorway. [1] The former Burroughs factory, the first factory of Cumbernauld new town, was reoccupied by OKI but was demolished to make way for Westway Retail Park, OKI having been relocated to Westfield.
Smithstone (Scots: Smeeston) [1] is an area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. Versions of the name are recorded in the vicinity from the mid fourteenth century onwards. [ 2 ] The area was originally a farm and the first Ordnance Survey map shows it as Smithstown. [ 3 ]
The street-naming scheme is based on Scottish islands. [6] Ravenswood Primary School [7] and Our Lady's High School are both in this area of the town. [8] Early in the new town's history Ravenswood was more distinct from Seafar than it now is possibly due to the building schedule and signage on paths. [9]
Upload another image (formerly) "The Masonic Arms", 62 Main Street 55°57′44″N 3°58′34″W / 55.962239°N 3.976176°W / 55.962239; -3.976176 ((formerly) "The Masonic Arms", 62 Main Street) Category B 24081 Upload another image Dullatur Village Prospect Road Dunluce 55°58′03″N 4°00′46″W / 55.967425°N 4.01283°W / 55.967425; -4.01283 (Dullatur ...
The 19th century Groome's Gazetteer states [4] that Cumbernauld is: "A picturesque old place, sheltered to E and SE by the grounds of Cumbernauld House, it was created a burgh of barony in 1649, and has a post office under Glasgow, a branch of the Royal Bank, a local savings' bank, 2 chief inns, gas-works, many new handsome villas, and a cattle ...
Built in the Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles, the building held the Bank of Fayetteville and First National Bank upon their merger in 1915. [3] The modern Bank of Fayetteville, located across the street in the Lewis Brothers Building, was founded in 1980, and has no affiliation to the Bank of Fayetteville of the 1915 merger.