Several more extensions and new buildings were added that year the last phase of major building works at the site. In 1913 production peaked at the factory and space was again becoming an issue.
By summer 1885 Singer's Kilbowie Factory was the largest factory in the world, had the capacity to manufacture 8000 sewing machines a week, employed 3500 people and manufactured sewing machines that were sent around the globe. Production began to transfer to the Kilbowie factory from James Street in summer 1884. The building of the Singer's Kilbowie factory, renamed the Clydebank factory in 1900, started on the 8th May 1882 and was completed in 1885. Singer had chosen to build their flagship factory at Kilbowie. In 1881, after initially considering a location in Stirlingshire, the company purchased a 46 acre area of farmland to the west of Glasgow which had excellent transport links via road, rail and river and an abundant skilled labour resource thanks mainly to the existing shipbuilding industry in the area. Despite this and further expansion at James Street in the following years the factory could still not meet the world-wide demand for Singer machines and, in 1882, the search began to find a new factory. As demand grew world-wide Singer relocated to premises in James Street, Bridgeton in 1869 where they could increase production and, more importantly, begin to manufacture rather than just assemble machines. This factory assembled sewing machines from parts shipped from Singer factories in America to supply the UK and European markets. In 1867 The Singer Manufacturing Company set up a small assembly factory in a rented property in Love Loan near Queen Street Station. Scotland's, and particularly Glasgow's, established and internationally recognised industries of shipbuilding, cotton thread manufacture and iron smelting, its global trade and shipping connections and, as McKenzie later indicated, its highly skilled but lowly paid work force, were the driving forces behind the decision to locate their first foreign factory in Glasgow. It does not store any personal data.General Manager in Singer, George Ross McKenzie, a Scot who emigrated to America in 1846, was given the task of locating Singer's first overseas factory. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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