Linwood is a small town in Renfrewshire, Scotland, south-west of Glasgow.

From 1980 to 1995 Linwood had one of the highest unemployment rates in Scotland.

At its height Rootes had plants in the Midlands at Coventry and Birmingham, in the south at Acton, Luton, Dunstable, Maidstone and Canterbury, and in the West of Scotland at Linwood.

The Linwood plant was a disaster for many reasons — chiefly the West of Scotland workforce who had no experience in motor vehicle assembly, and the build quality and reliability of the cars inevitably suffered.

PSA soon wielded the axe over the troubled Linwood factory in Scotland, and exhumed the Talbot marque from the pages of Rootes ' history to re-badge the former Chrysler models.

A complete departure in 1963 was the Hillman Imp using a Coventry Climax all alloy, 875 cc rear engine and built in a brand new factory in Linwood, Scotland.

The Avenger was initially produced at Rootes ' plant in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, England, and later at the company's Linwood facility near Glasgow, Scotland.

Production was transferred from Ryton to the Linwood plant in Scotland in 1977, where it was produced until the end of its production life.

Pressed Steel manufactured the body-shells at their Linwood plant in Scotland and shipped them to Jensen in West Bromwich to be finished, painted and trimmed, before then being shipped to Sweden where Volvo completed the final build.

* Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland

* Linwood bank robbery ( 1969 ), Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland

The former Simca and Rootes assembly plants in Poissy and Ryton-on-Dunsmore, respectively, continued under the ownership of Peugeot, but Rootes ' Linwood plant in Scotland was a casualty of the takeover-closing its doors in 1981.

The Chrysler Sunbeam is a small supermini 3-door hatchback manufactured by Chrysler Europe at the former Rootes Group factory in Linwood in Scotland.

Between 1967 and 1969, the Rapier was built at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, but from 1969 until its demise in 1976, it was built at the Imp factory at Linwood in Scotland.

* Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland

The expansion and economy of Linwood from 1961 onwards relied heavily on the Rootes, later Chrysler then Peugeot Talbot car plant, and the associated Pressed Steel Company body parts pressing facility.

After Chrysler UK was bought by Peugeot Talbot, a review of the plant and associated models decided to close the Linwood plant in favour of retaining the Ryton plant near Coventry.

Historically in recent times, the major employers in the area were the Glengarnock Steelworks and the Linwood car manufacturing plant.

The Linwood car plant manufactured the Hillman Imp, a competitor to BMC's Mini, and provided up to 9, 000 jobs during peak production but was closed by Peugeot-Citroen in 1981.

Hunter production was switched in 1969 to Rootes ' troubled Imp plant in Linwood, from its original home of Ryton.

Following the Hillman Avenger's move to Linwood in 1976, the very last European Hunters were assembled in the Santry plant, Shanowen Road, Ireland from " complete knock down " ( CKD ) kits until production ended in 1979 – but no evidence exists to suggest that the Talbot badge was applied to any production Hunter following Chrysler Europe's 1978 takeover by Peugeot, and the application of that badge to other Chrysler models sold on or after 1 August 1979.

Rootes had to build a new computerised assembly plant on the outskirts of Glasgow, in the town of Linwood in which to assemble the Imp, since planning regulations banned it from further expanding its Ryton plant near Coventry.

The huge investment in both the Imp and the Linwood production plant proved to be one of the reasons for the undoing of Rootes Group, and its commercial failure fuelled the huge losses suffered although the main reason for Rootes Group losses were industrial unrest and the effects of the forthcoming cooperation with Chrysler Corporation of the USA.

The Linwood plant was closed in 1981.

Production continued until 1981, when Peugeot closed the Linwood production plant and concentrated all British production at the Ryton plant, which was in use until the end of 2006, by which time it had been making Peugeot cars for 21 years.

PSA decided that the Linwood plant would be unprofitable to maintain and should be closed, which meant an end to both the Avenger and Sunbeam model lines, further emphasizing the need for a new supermini in the Talbot lineup.

The Sunbeam's development was funded by a British government grant with the aim to keep the Linwood plant running, and the small car was based on the larger Hillman Avenger also manufactured there.

Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood née Paine.

Linwood was founded as " Journeycake ," being named after Charles Journeycake, the last Delaware chief.

In May 1860, a treaty was signed at Sarcoxieville, northeast of Linwood, by Chief Sarcoxie of the Delaware and by the United States.

When the name Stranger became a problem for the Postal Service who confused Stranger with a nearby town also named Stranger ( referred to as " Big " Stranger ), the town was renamed Linwood on December 20, 1877.

The original Haverhill settlement was located around the corner of Water Street and Mill Street, near the Linwood Cemetery and Burying Ground.

Linwood was originally incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 20, 1889, from portions of Egg Harbor Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day.

Linwood was incorporated as a city on April 27, 1931, replacing Linwood borough.

Linwood was incorporated as a city in 1931, although the community encompassing the area traces its existence to colonial times.

Linwood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Following the War, Holt spent an increasing amount of time at his plantation Linwood, located southwest of Lexington, where he operated a scientific farm on his, and where, as President of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, Holt was among the first to introduce purebred breeds of livestock to North Carolina.

He was sired by the first Rin Tin Tin and his mother was Champion Asta of Linwood, also owned by Lee Duncan.

Linwood was closed in 1981 with most of the factory demolished soon afterwards.

This state of the town was immortalised in the December 1987 song Letter from America by The Proclaimers, the lyrics " Linwood no more " referring to the car factory being demolished and the resultant need to leave your Scottish home.

In December 2011 Linwood was ' awarded ' ' Scotland's most dismal town ' in the annual Carbuncle Awards, an award hoped to cause debate and inspire redevelopment.

Because it was November and the ground may have been frozen, some authors like Bob Boze Bell have speculated that Holliday could not have been buried in his marked grave in the Linwood Cemetery which was only accessible via a difficult mountain road.

However, Holliday biographer Gary Roberts has located evidence that other bodies were transported to the Linwood Cemetery at the same time of the month that year, and the papers reported at the time explicitly that the burial was in the Linwood Cemetery.

Malcolm in the Middle was an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

He was interred in Linwood Cemetery in Dubuque.

Paul Linwood was brought in from Chester City, should hugely targeted Ryan Bennett be on his way, but after rejecting 2 offers from Peterborough United, the club tied the young skipper on an improved 4 year contract.