Glasgow Trading & Transport Ltd (pottery manufacturers & Tennent's transport : 1919-1963 : Glasgow, Scotland)

Glasgow Trading & Transport Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, was a subsidiary of J & R Tennent Ltd , brewers, Glasgow, Scotland. The company was formed by J & R Tennent Ltd in 1919, and set up as a limited liability company in order to look after the company's financial interests. The Memorandum and Articles of Association reads that Glasgow Trading & Transport Ltd was set up to carry on numerous business matters, but principally it was to run the Pottery, look after the transport needs of J & R Tennent's, and be a holding company for stocks and shares.

The first directors of Glasgow Trading & Transport Ltd were those on the Board of J & R Tennent Ltd, namely, John Alexander Yeaman , Writer to the Signet ; William Auld, a Chartered Accountant and Stockbroker ; William Brown , a retired banker from Polmont ; and James Archibald Campell , a landed proprietor . J A Campbell was related to the Tennent family by marriage.

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