This called for the nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.

* BAe / Scottish Aviation Bulldog

In 1977, BAC was nationalised along with Scottish Aviation and Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace ( BAe ).

During the Second World War, Scottish Aviation was involved in aircraft fitting for the war effort.

The factory building of Scottish Aviation, which still exists today, was formerly the Palace of Engineering at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.

Scottish Aviation merged with the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics to form British Aerospace in 1977.

Much of the former Scottish Aviation assets now belong to Spirit AeroSystems.

* Scottish Aviation Pioneer ( 5 November 1947 )

* Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer ( 25 June 1955 )

* Scottish Aviation Bulldog

* Scottish Aviation Jetstream

Image: scottish. twin. 750pix. jpg | Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer

Image: JetstreamXX500. JPG | Scottish Aviation Jetstream T1

Image: bulldog g-bhzr arp. jpg | Privately owned Scottish Aviation Bulldog, formerly of the Botswana Air Force and in their colours, at an English rally in 2005.

1965 Scottish Aviation Scamp

Between 1964 and 1966 Scottish Aviation designed a small battery-electric car, the Scottish Aviation Scamp, of which twelve pre-production examples were built.

* Berry, P ( 2005 ) Prestwick Airport and Scottish Aviation

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In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

* Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries ( Birlinn Limited 2006 )

It is still owned by the Ministry of Defence, under a ' care and maintenance ' programme, but a part of the airport is now run as a commercial enterprise by the Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, a company under the control of the Scottish Government.

Lord Kemsley bought the paper for £ 1 million in 1922, forming a controlling company known as Associated Scottish Newspapers Limited.

Struan's " Noble House " trading company of the novel is based on Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited, a major Scottish trading company that operates out of Hong Kong.

Loganair Limited is a Scottish airline with its registered office on the grounds of Glasgow International Airport and in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

With the painting and Limited Edition sales combined, just under £ 100, 000 was raised for four Scottish charities.

SGUL also refers to Scottish Golf Union Limited, the board of the Scottish Golf Union.

** In what was then the largest merger in Australian banking history, ANZ merged with the English, Scottish and Australian Bank Limited to form the present organisation, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

At the Scottish Qualifications Authority ( SQA ) Star Awards ceremony held in November 2008 Aberdeen Skills and Enterprise Training Limited, the College ’ s wholly owned subsidiary company, received the International SQA Star Award, which recognises the work of SQA centres delivering SQA qualifications to international candidates in Scotland and abroad.

* Stagecoach Highlands-Stagecoach controls operations in the Scottish Highlands after the takeover of The Rapsons Group ( Orkney Coaches / Highland Country Buses ) in 2008, adding to the network already operated in the City of Inverness by Stagecoach, consisting of Highland Country Buses Limited.

Lowland Scottish Omnibuses Limited was created 1985 as part of the reorganisation of the state owned Scottish Bus Group in preparation for deregulation of the bus industry in 1986, and eventual privatisation.

It inherited the south eastern depots and operations of Scottish Omnibuses Limited ( Eastern Scottish ), in the Scottish Borders, eastern East Lothian and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

He is currently Chairman of The Weir Group plc and Scottish and Southern Energy and a non-Executive Director of 3i Group plc, Standard Bank Group Limited, and Aegon UK plc.

In 1970, it merged with the English, Scottish and Australian Bank Limited, another London-based bank, formed in 1852, in what was then the largest merger in Australian banking history, to form the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.

The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow.

* Barnes, RM, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London, Sphere Books Limited, 1972.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

He was a member of Harmony lodge, No. 12, AF & AM, Scottish Rite ; ;

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Thomas Wallace was of Scottish ancestry.

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.

This was a collaborative project involving The Scottish Parliament, International Teledemocracy Centre and the Bundestag ‘ Online Services Department ’.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.