Friday, July 3, 1953 9.30 a.m. Left Victoria League headquarters by coach.

10.00 a.m. Arrived at Fairfield's Shipyard which we visited by invitation of Vice-Admiral E. W. Longley-Cook, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Chairman of the Glasgow branch of The Victoria League.

With the appearance of inter-continental jet transportation in the late 1950s, shipbuilding declined and Fairfields was absorbed.

l2.30-1.30 p.m. The group was divided into two parties, one lunching at the British Polar Engines' Canteen and the other at Fairfield's Canteen.

2.00 p.m. Tour of the North British Locomotive Works, where members were guests for tea in the Company's canteen.

We visited a lot of industries on this trip — steam locomotive, shipbuilding, turbo-prop airplane, and tobacco manufacturing. Within five years they all seemed to be in trouble. Times, they were changing.

Steam locomotive manufacturing had been thriving since the 1830s but with diesel taking over the North British Locomotive Works folded in 1961. See Ian Livingston's interesting site.

5.30 p.m. Arrived at Victoria League headquarters.

7.30 p.m. Saw LIFE WITH FATHER at the Alhambra Theatre.

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