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| - Clydebank is a relatively new town created in the mid 19th century by Patrick Whitecrook Linnvale Faifley, a landlord who grew so fat that every time he sat down, he burst the seat in his trousers. Annoyed by this fact, he set out to find a solution, and stumbled upon a gap in the market. When buying trousers, he realised that the trouser manufacturers didn't want to know about repairing product they had actually sold. With this in mind, he constructed the largest sewing machine factory in the world on fields along the road from his mansion and called it Singers after the popular pastime of singing. He brought in migrant labour from Nepal and housed them in buildings called "Tenements" Clydebank grew into a town that was in demand by the western worker, and eventually the Nepalese workers
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| - Clydebank is a relatively new town created in the mid 19th century by Patrick Whitecrook Linnvale Faifley, a landlord who grew so fat that every time he sat down, he burst the seat in his trousers. Annoyed by this fact, he set out to find a solution, and stumbled upon a gap in the market. When buying trousers, he realised that the trouser manufacturers didn't want to know about repairing product they had actually sold. With this in mind, he constructed the largest sewing machine factory in the world on fields along the road from his mansion and called it Singers after the popular pastime of singing. He brought in migrant labour from Nepal and housed them in buildings called "Tenements" Clydebank grew into a town that was in demand by the western worker, and eventually the Nepalese workers were forced out by West of Scotland workers. Unhappy with the fact that they were only building smaller Sewing machines,some of the West of Scotland workers felt this to be a bit soft. They started the first recorded Union in the UK, calling themselves the "Sewing Machine Unification Trust" or S.M.U.T. The answer to this, was to invest in a large waste ground next to the River Clyde. From here, they realised that they could put their skills and experience to good use and build super industrial sized sewing machines to cover the giant Mediterranean blanket market. This market died after the great blanket crash of 1867 leaving thousands of blanket orientated employees out of work. With an undoubting strength, the Giant Sewing machine manufacturers looked towards a new market and realised pretty quickly that their giant sewing machines looked quite similar to a ship. This needed a "float test" and in May 1869 the first recorded floating sewing machine, sailed down the River Clyde to the port of Greenock. A clever employee named John Brown,decided that the space the giant bobbins were taking up, could be replaced by valuable cargo, so the giant sewing machine idea was scrapped in favour of cargo ships. The Upper Clyde shipyard called John Brown's was born. The yard went on to build some of the biggest ships in the world including the SS Gargantua, which sank moments after being launched due to communication problems between the various different nationalities who worked at the yards. It was said, that the Peruvian welders couldn't understand the Chinese foreman, and 'forgot' to weld a floor onto the ship. all hell broke loose and WW3 was narrowly avoided when Buckfast was introduced to the union discussions. Several points were brought up during the tense stand off, notably, the Vietnamese contingency's urgency to introduce 'Jack Russel Jalfrezi' into the staff canteen menu. Despite the language barriers, it was announced soon after that there would be a common language for shipyard workers and this would be called Billyconnolese.
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