Located over 150 acres, it employed around 25,000 workers.
• Rolls-Royce, Hillington: the lowering of the Merlin crankshaft unit into position, c1940 Pic: Glasgow City ArchivesMuseum and Art Gallery during a visit, I little suspected the Glasgow connection to these fighter planes and their equally iconic counterparts, the Lancaster Bombers.
Construction on the factory began on farmland in August 1939 and continued until May 1940 when it was ready to operate. Several months ago, the City Archives received a photograph album which chronicled the construction and operation of the factory as well as the training of its workforce. Such was RR Hillington’s importance to the war effort that it was photographed during the Luftwaffe’s aerial reconnaissance ofREAD MORE: 'A Mortons roll is a masterpiece' - chef Gary McLean on the Glasgow recipes which inspired his new book
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