Basic Biographical Details
| Name: | (Sir) John McDonald |
| Designation: | |
| Born: | 24 May 1874 |
| Died: | 31 January 1964 |
| Bio Notes: | Sir John McDonald (not 'MacDonald', 1874–1964), was a major building contractor in the Glasgow area in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the archetypal self-made businessman, who in the 1930s became a government advisor on the transport industry. McDonald was born on 24 May 1874, at 99 Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow, to John McDonald, a journeyman currier (leather-worker and hide-dresser), from Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire. His mother, Glasgow-born Ann Mitchell, was a former power-loom weaver. During the 1880s-90s, the McDonalds lived in the industrial district of Bridgeton. At 16, McDonald worked in a weaving factory, but followed his grandfather, a stonemason, into the construction industry by undertaking a 6-year woodworking apprenticeship. He founded ‘Graham & McDonald, joiners’ at 78 Adelphi Street (now renamed Poplin Street), Bridgeton, with Robert A Graham around 1899. The partnership ended that August, with McDonald retaining the business premises. McDonald married Janet Campbell Harrison, daughter of a carpet weaver, in April 1900, and they had two children, Annie Mitchell McDonald (b January 1901), and John Robert Harrison McDonald (b 22 May 1907). McDonald’s firm expanded rapidly and by 1904, his ‘wright works’ encompassed 78-100 Adelphi Street (now Poplin Street). In May 1910, a serious fire destroyed the Adelphi (now Poplin) Street wood-store and sawmill, causing £2,000 damage. McDonald had already purchased (in his wife’s name) a tenement at 12-18 Old Dalmarnock Road, Bridgeton and now moved the office to No 12, with the family home next door. The sawmill and joinery relocated to Brown Street. In 1914-15, McDonald built himself a large villa in Carmunnock, called 'Elpalet' (Biblical, meaning ‘God saves’), which apparently avoided wartime restrictions on materials. This ‘castellated Gothic’ eficice had bay windows, drip-mouldings and an externally-accessed, crenellated roof terrace. The utilisation of flat roofs as additional living space was a constant theme in McDonald’s buildings after the war. The interior was extraordinarily lavish, the entrance featuring a dome embellished with coats of arms, and marble and mosaic flooring. The reception rooms were panelled in walnut veneer and carved overmantels. Despite the war, McDonald had founded the Sunlit Building Company by early 1917. Their products were suitable to the times – rapidly erected prefabricated and multi-purpose structures. By 1918, Sunlit Building were supplying mass-produced units and huts to the Admiralty, War Office, Ministry of Munitions, and local government. They boasted of being made-to-measure and only required nails or bolts. Their logo showed a radiant sun rising over a flat roofed factory and steeple. During December 1917, Sunlit supplied labour and materials to London contractors Topham, Jones & Railham Ltd to convert Glen Albyn Distillery, Inverness into barracks for the American submarine base nearby. The two firms also jointly undertook other contracts for the Admiralty. Increasing trade caused McDonald to formalise his business in September 1920 as John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd, of Burnside, also incorporating Sunlit Building. This was a private firm with share capital of £40,000. He always recognised the value of advertising, as well as being keen to promote new technologies and materials. As a publicity stunt during house-construction at Burnside, Glasgow in September 1920, he winched his temporary site offices, weighing 150 tons, to a new site 80 feet away. John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd became a joint-stock company in August 1923. The 1919 Housing Act placed the onus on local authorities to provide (government subsidised) working-class housing. To tackle the vast, un-met need for new dwellings, and slum clearance, that year Glasgow established a Housing Department, under a Director of Housing. By extending the city boundaries, purpose-built estates could be laid out, and this was prioritised over redeveloping the congested city centre. Small blocks of self-contained, 3 and 4-apartment flats were built instead of traditional tenements with communal entrances. The actual builders were a mix of Glasgow Council’s ‘Direct Labour’, and private companies. The principal council developments were Mosspark, Riddrie, Knightswood (the largest scheme, on land formerly in Dunbartonshire), Carntyne and Scotstoun. McDonald’s was contracted for ‘Sunlit’-style houses on the city’s peripheral estates, as part of the post-war drive to employ and house returning ex-servicemen. In February 1922, McDonald (Contractors) Ltd were listed at Parkhead Tramway Depot (presumably working there), and from early 1924 at Knightswood, where they, along with competitors McTaggart and Mickel, continued until the early 1930s. McDonald constantly promoted the advantages of his own ‘Sunlit Homes’, in line with the 1920s fashion for ‘sun baths’ and exercise. He claimed that flat-roofs admitted more sunshine at ground level than traditional pitched-roofs, brightening lower rooms. Such level roofs were imaginatively, if improbably, advertised as ‘putting greens, gymnasiums, [or] rifle ranges’. Drainage problems were supposedly solved by sealed, composite wood/bitumen roofing. A gravel-embossed or tarmac finish was guaranteed for 15 years. McDonald’s favourite cavity walls regulated temperature, and were externally roughcast. The new houses had bay windows, another recurrent McDonald motif, as they were more easily adapted to flat than sloping roofs. Traditional construction materials like stone, and the requisite skilled tradesmen were scarce due to wartime losses, and emigration. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin visited Glasgow in October 1925, to advocate the use of steel and other mass-produced components to increase construction – measures supported by McDonald. In a spectacular demonstration of how rapidly his factory-made units could be put up, McDonald erected a Sunlit House at Burnside in just 12 days in September 1927. Glasgow Corporation were so impressed, that they ordered 500 similar 3-apartment homes for Carntyne and elsewhere. Houses which already attracted a £120 subsidy under the ‘Wheatley’ or Housing Act 1924 were briefly offered an additional £40 grant in 1925. At this time, Glasgow had over 30,000 applicants for housing, and totally insufficient accommodation. Both McDonald and McTaggart & MIckel Ltd won contracts for hundreds of additional homes at Knightswood in early 1926. The Council commissioned another 852 patent (flat roof and cavity wall) houses (worth £306, 940) at Knightswood in summer 1928. McDonald confidently guaranteed to pay the rents of any houses not finished within the stipulated 14 month contract, asserting that he had ‘adopted the [building] methods of tomorrow’. Throughout 1927-9, McDonald’s men worked on Knightswood Areas 6, 7 and 9, and had reached ‘Archerfield’ (probably ‘Archerhill’) Road in 1930. On such greenfield sites, the municipal Housing Dept could incorporate gardens and open spaces unmatched on later projects. Three new subsidiaries were created in mid-1929 starting with the Glasgow Estates Development Company Ltd, a housing contractors and estate agency. Sunlight Ltd were timber merchants and builders, and Stronghold Ltd worked with their own bitumen and tar macadam roofing products. Newspapers often confused ‘Sunlight Ltd’ with the now-defunct ‘Sunlit Building Co’, and used both titles interchangeably with the non-existent ‘Sunlit Homes Ltd’. However, as of 1929, the official advertised title was ‘Sunlight Ltd’, with the ‘Sunlit’ (not ‘Sunlight’) brand-name being reserved for their buildings. The firm’s joinery factory at Burnside made its own patented ‘Sunlit’ doors and staircases. J R H McDonald (1907-96) was a science rather than architecture graduate, but he belonged to the Institute of Civil Engineers and several town planning bodies. Additionally, in the late 1920s-early 30s, he visited Belgium, Holland and Germany to studying modern construction, and met Dr Josef Frank in Vienna. In May 1931, he published ‘Modern Housing: A Review … at home and abroad, and some practical suggestions’, a thinly-disguised promotion for Sunlit Homes and their patented technical methods. He pictured specimen dwellings built of their own precast concrete blocks. In support of his extravagant claims McDonald junior cited Josef Hoffman, Le Corbusier, Robert Mallet-Stephens and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, quoting ‘best practice’ from municipal housing abroad. This inevitably included balconies, rooftop ‘sun terraces’, and streamlined deco styling, although the extreme unsuitability of the Scottish climate for flat roofs was ignored. One of McDonald senior’s ‘Sunlit’ brand houses was erected at the 1931 ‘Ideal Home’ exhibition at the Kelvin Hall, which ‘thus predated Wells Coates’ Ideal Home ‘Sunspan’ House … by two years’. In 1932, the exhibition’s sponsors, the Daily Mail ran a competition (‘The House that Jean Built’, as opposed to ‘Jack’ in the nursery rhyme) for ‘sketch plans’ for a dream-home costing £1500, built for the second Scottish Ideal Home Exhibition, 5-29 October 1932. The £250 prize-winner, Glasgow teacher Elizabeth M Reid of Maryhill, suggested an efficient, flat-roofed, modernist all-electric dwelling. It had a sunken bath, shower, fitted kitchen and externally-vented pantry, flush doors and concealed drainpipes. Reid’s ideas were incorporated and adapted into the exhibition’s model home, built by McDonald. One reviewer’s only reservation was ‘the great expanse of glass … in our climate the home may prove … cold’. McDonald further offered to erect a similar house at Burnside for only £1,000, and £100 deposit. It is not known if he received any commissions. John R H McDonald married his American fiancée Dorcas Hutcheson in Chattanooga, USA in February 1932. In November McDonald senior purchased the 117-acre Kilmardinny estate, Bearsden, formerly owned by the MP Robert Dalgleish. He rapidly sold it to his subsidiary, the Glasgow Estates Development Co Ltd, who built on the land over the next decade. Another subsidiary, Plewlands, purchased it in 1937. In early 1933, the McDonalds began Cardonald, one of Glasgow’s largest council schemes, where Glasgow Estates Development Co and another firm erected 2512 four-in-a-block flats. The council had already laid out roads and sewers preparatory to feuing for private developers, despite political objections from Labour councillors. The huge project cost £1million, and this contract may have financed the McDonald’s lavish family homes on the former Kilmardinny grounds. Kilmardinny provided an opportunity to construct the McDonalds’ own designs, without budgetary restrictions. Five of the houses in steeply sloping Carse View Drive, were in the current International Style, and two were more traditional. Work began in 1933, and Green Ridge was built for Annie Mitchell McDonald in 1933-4. J R R McDonald’s own modernist family home, ‘White Lodge’ in Kilmardinny Drive, featured in Country Life in 1935, and according to the article was designed by him. The new Sir John and Lady McDonald left their modern villa, ‘Elpalet’, around the start of 1937 for the much grander Victorian Kilmardinny House. McDonald had formed the Plewlands Investment Co in January 1937, specifically to purchase and run Kilmardinny estate because it was beneficial to keep his residence and businesses legally separate. In October 1937, McDonald appointed book-keeper Christina McLachlan as a director and company secretary of Plewlands, and eventually married her in 1955. Simultaneously with the Bearsden showpieces, the McDonalds, as the Sunlight Building Co were negotiating with Lanarkshire County Council in 1933 to build 404 ‘working-class houses’ overlooking Duke’s Road, Burnside. In November 1933, the Dept of Health for Scotland refused Sunlight’s application for the government rent subsidy of £9 per house per year. This left Sunlight with hundreds of tons of timber and bricks sitting beside already-prepared foundations, and the additional legal necessity to both prove a local need for council accommodation, and to reduce the planned rents. The large housing developments of ‘Cardonald & Hillington Scheme SW2’, and ‘Carntyne E2’ were underway from before January 1933, until after January 1935. ‘Glasgow Estates Co’ advertised 4/5 apartment terraces at Cardonald ‘Areas 1 and 2’, pitched tiled roofs, and timber-gabled bay windows. These were presumably for private rent, as the conventional designs were entirely contrary to the McDonald ethos. The Glasgow Estates Development Co built shops and garages in Paisley Road West in 1935, and in 1936 extended the Rutherglen Girl Guides HQ, opened by the chatelaine of Castlemilk House. Between 1935 and 1937, private purchasers in Bearsden could visit the sales offices at Douglas Park and Kilmardinny, and the Burnbrae Estate show-house at 275 Milngavie Road. They also advertised at Mosshead Road, Bearsden, and Woodlands Road, Rouken Glen in 1938. The latter combined ‘maximum comfort’ at minimum cost, with electric fires, and a large ‘dinette’. The same conventional, semi-detached properties with sloping roofs were available at Burnside and Bearsden, ‘from 19/10- weekly’, in 1939. Unfortunately, McDonald’s non-standard construction caused problems. The owner of a modernist ‘bandbox’ house at Hillfoot, Bearsden took McDonald to court for breach of contract in 1939. He bought flat-roofed ‘Buckfast’, in Carseview Drive for £1185 in July 1934. ‘Within months … serious damp [and] spongy cracks developed, fungus grew’, and it became uninhabitable. Despite McDonald blaming condensation, the sheriff found that ‘faults in the construction’ of the flat roof caused leaks, and awarded £350 damages. McDonald saw his greatest influence in public life in the 1930s, when he hosted fetes at Elpalet, Burnside, for the Rutherglen Unionist Association (the future Conservatives) attended by MPs and gentry. He was knighted in February 1937, for ‘political and public services in the south west of Scotland’. He was vice-president of the Institute of Patentees, holding walling and roof technical patents, and had recently demonstrated his prefabricated bricks to local authorities. McDonald was president of the Scottish Commercial Motor Users’ Association (SCMUA), and served on the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Transport. He was active in civic service, sitting on the master court of Glasgow’s Incorporation of Masons, and belonging to the Incorporation of Wrights. He was a JP from the mid-1930s, was a member of the Clan McDonald Society, and enjoyed fishing, curling and golf. In the late 1930s, Sir John participated in radio discussions about the costs of private letting, rent levels and council housing. He also highlighted the need for road haulage to be more efficient to compete with railways and shipping, and in 1939 was elected as Scottish representative to the National Labour Organisation’s executive. During the war, as president of the SCMUA Sir John commented on petrol rationing in 1940, and raised money for Glasgow’s War Relief Fund. The haulage workers in the SCMUA contributed 2d weekly, which was matched by employers like McDonald, raising £1,000 monthly for war relief, and this was copied by other industries. By 1942, the Commercial Motor Users’ Association was experiencing labour shortages and heavy petrol taxes, despite having to supply the forces with munitions and fuel. His deputy A Henderson remarked ‘Nobody except ourselves realised how important we were until it was too late’. J H R McDonald (who remained in Britain) evacuated his young family to their American grandparents in June 1940. During the war, the various enterprises continued, with Stronghold Ltd supplying waterproof sheeting to government contractors. In June 1944, the existing John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd entered voluntary liquidation, and were re-launched as a private joint-stock firm in March 1945, in order to enable John R H McDonald to become the director. The 1950s were more difficult for the McDonalds. Lady McDonald died at Kilmardinny in June 1954, aged 79. Sir John only waited a very short while before remarrying, to his longterm book-keeper and Plewlands company secretary Christina McLachlan (c1898-1986) in early 1955. She was about 24 years his junior, and they had 9 years together before Sir John’s death. Glasgow Estates Development Company (who owned 1340 dwellings) was sued by some tenants in February 1955, under the Housing (Repairs and Rents) Scotland Act. The company had repaired houses at Gauldry Ave, Cardonald using their own subcontractors, Sunlight Builders of Bridgeton. The company spent about £10,000 on maintenance annually, but the tenants alleged that their own expected contributions were excessive, and won compensation in the Sheriff Court. Sir John McDonald died at Kilmardinny House, aged 89, in January 1964. His obituary called him ‘ambitious, industrious, technically able, and [possessed of] commercial shrewdness’. He had erected over 10,000 houses, innovating with streamlined production, prefabrication, cavity walls and flat roofs. Plewlands Investments, Glasgow Estates Development Co, and John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd were dissolved between 1965 and 1970. Kilmardinny House was sold to Bearsden Burgh Council in May 1968, for £56,378, and became a cultural venue. Lady McDonald died aged 86, at Balfron, Stirlingshire in 1984. She was interviewed by art teacher Robert Lindlay Nelson in the late 1970s as part of his postgraduate thesis on McDonald’s ‘international’ style houses, and their suitability for the Scottish climate. John R H McDonald returned to the USA after World War II, and retired to Chattanooga in 1970, where he and his wife became major philanthropists. J R H McDonald died in 1996. Mrs Dorcas McDonald left most of her $8.7million dollar estate to charitable purposes, including $1m to her church. Companies in which McDonald was partner or owner: Graham & McDonald, wrights, 78 Adelphi Street (now Poplin St), Bridgeton 1899 1900 - partner John McDonald, wright, 78-100 Adelphi (now Poplin) Street, Bridgeton 1900-1914 - Wright (Owner) (Premises expanded between 1900 and 1904 to encompass all street numbers from 78-100 Adelphi St, Bridgeton, which was later renamed Poplin St, to avoid confusion with similarly named site in the Gorbals). John McDonald, builder and joiner, head office 12 Old Dalmarnock Road, Bridgeton, Glasgow. 1915-1919 Builder and joiner (Owner) (Starts advertising as builder; various premises at multiple locations, some short-term, listed in annual Post Office Directories) Sunlit Standard Building Co, 12 Old Dalmarnock Rd, Bridgeton, Glasgow, 1917 - Sept 1920 Sole Partner (Acquired by John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd in 1920; ‘Sunlit Building Co’ not to be confused with later firm ‘Sunlight Ltd’.) John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd, East Kilbride Road, Burnside, Glasgow, Sept 1920-1944. Building Contractor (Owner). (Private company, acquired business of John McDonald wright, East Kilbride Road, and Sunlit Building Co, 12 Old Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow; dissolved voluntarily by chairman Sir John McDonald June 1944 and business continued in new form as John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd as of March 1945). Glasgow Estates Development Company, 12 Old Dalmarnock Road, Bridgeton, Glasgow June 1929-April 1966 (Owner) (Private company, Building Contractor and Estate Agency; enters voluntary liquidation April 1966) Sunlight Ltd, East Kilbride Road, Rutherglen July 1929. (Owner) (Private Company, timber merchants, builders (‘Sunlight Ltd’ not to be confused with similarly-named but earlier ‘Sunlit Building Co’)) Stronghold Ltd, 14 Old Dalmarnock Road, Bridgeton, Glasgow July 1929 April 1966 Owner. (Private Company; contractors in asphalt, tarmacadam, bitumen. Entered members’ voluntarily liquidation on 8 April 1966, J R H McDonald director at this date) Plewlands Ltd, 13A East Kilbride Road, Rutherglen Jan 1937-Nov 1965 (Owner) (Private Company; investment, lending and agency company, capital £50,000 in £1 shares; shareholders James M Rankin, builder’s manager, and Jean Galbraith, private secretary; entered voluntary liquidation Nov 1965; formally dissolved April 1970) Stronghold Ltd, builders merchants, 9 Bucklaw Place, Glasgow SW2 Jan 1938 1939 Owner (Branch office) Stronghold Ltd, merchants, 134 St Vincent St May 1940. (Owner) Sunlight Ltd, builders, Sunlit Buildings, Mosshead Road, Bearsden May 1941 March 1966 (Owner)(Entered members’ voluntarily liquidation on 18 March 1966, J R H McDonald director at this date. Wound up December 1967) Glasgow Estate Development Co ltd, 9 Bucklaw Place, SW2 May 1941 April 1966 Owner. (Firm enters voluntary liquidation April 1966) John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd, East Kilbride Rd, Burnside, Rutherglen March 1945-Jan 1965 Owner, Director (J R H McDonald becomes director of restructured company in lieu of father; private joint stock company registered March 1945, £60,000 capital in £1 shares; second director Dorothy Gallacher, 162 Chryston Road, Chryston, company secretary; Company struck off the companies register, hereby dissolved, 22 January 1965) Biography by Morag Cross. |
Private and Business Addresses
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| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | |
 | Burnside, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | |||
| 156, Boden Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1881 | ||
| 37, Dale Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1891 | ||
| 78, Adelphi (now Poplin) Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1898 | 1903 | |
| 90, London Road, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1900 | ||
| 286, Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | Early 1900 | ||
| 12, James Street, Greenhead, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | Early 1901 | 1903 | |
| Wardlaw Avenue, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | 1904 | ||
| Wright Works/78-100 , Adelphi Street (now Poplin Street), Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1904 | Before 1910 | Premises destroyed by fire in 1910 |
| 97, Greenhead Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1905 | 1909 | |
| 155, Greenhead Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1910 | 1911 | |
| Wright Works/18, Brown Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1910 | 1919 or 1920 | Moved here after fire |
| 12, Old Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1910 | 1934 | Office from 1910. Head Office 1917-19. |
| 14, Old Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1912 | 1914 | |
| Nerston, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | 1915 | Address for Janet C McDonald as owner of tenement at 12-18 Old Dalmarnock Road, in 1915 Valuation Roll | |
| Elpalet/250, East Kilbride Road, Carmunnock, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | 1915 | 1935 | |
| Works, Mossend Station, Mossend, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1916 | 1919 or 1920 | |
| Works, East Kilbride Road, Burnside, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Business | 1917 | After 1940 | Works, East Kilbride Road, Burnside, Rutherglen Business 1917 After 1940 |
| Sunlit Building Company/12, Old Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | Early 1917 | Head office, premises shared with John McDonald’s main builder’s business. | |
| Kilmardinny House, Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1936 or 1937 | After 1964 | |
| Stronghold Ltd, builders merchants/9, Bucklaw Place, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1938 | 1939 | Branch office |
Employment and Training
Employers
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| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| John McDonald Contractors (or J M Contractors) | September 1920 | June 1944 | Partner | Private company, acquired business of John McDonald, wright, East Kilbride Road, and Sunlit Building Co., 12 Old Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow; dissolved voluntarily by chairman Sir John McDonald June 1944 and business continued in a new form as John McDonald (Contractors) Ltd as of March 1945. |
Buildings and Designs
| This was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | |||||||
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | |
| 1915 | Elpalet | Burnside, Rutherglen | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1915 | Epalet | Burnside | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1920 | Burnside houses | Glasgow | Scotland | |||
| April 1920 | Copelawhill Housing Scheme | Queen's Park | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| February 1924 | Knightswood Housing Scheme | Glasgow | Scotland | Contractor for part of the scheme | ||
| 1927 | Specimen Sunlit Home | Burnside | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| c. 1929 | 500 Sunlit Homes, Warriston Crescent, Carntyne Housing Development | Carntyne | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1931 | Scottish Ideal Home Exhibition | Kelvin Hall | Glasgow | Scotland | Specimen Sunlit Home exhibited | |
| 1932 | Scottish Ideal Home Exhibition, Daily Mail competition, Model/demonstration house | Kelvin Hall | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | 404 homes, Burnside | Cambuslang | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Built by Sunlit Ltd | |
| 1933 | 6 Carse View Drive | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | 7 Carse View Drive | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Buckfast, Carse View Drive | Glasgow | Scotland | |||
| 1933 | Cardonald and Hillington Housing scheme | Cardonald and Hillington | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Carntyne Housing Development | Carntyne | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Craigmillar, 8 Carse View Drive | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Glen Haven | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Green Ridge | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | Highhowe | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1933 | White Lodge | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1934 | 10 Carse View Drive | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1934 | Overdale | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1935 | Block of shops and garages, Paisley Road West and Lammermuir Avenue | Glasgow | Scotland | As Glasgow Estates development Co., one of McDonald's subsidiary companies. | ||
| 1935 | Houses at Douglas Park | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1935 | Lock-up car garages | Cardonald/Hillington | Glasgow | Scotland | As Glasgow Estates Development Co., one of McDonald's subsidiary companies. | |
| 1935 | Lock-up garages, Gladsmuir Street and Talla Road | Cardonald| Hillington | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | 1 Carse View Drive | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1936 | Girl Guide Headquarters | Rutherglen | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Extension | |
| 1936 | Houses, Brownside Road, Burnside | Cambuslang | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1938 | Houses at Mosshead Road | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1938 | Semi-detached cottages, Burnbrae Estate | Bearsden | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1938 | Semi-detached cottages, Burnside Estate | Burnside | Glasgow | Scotland | ||
| 1939 | Semi-detached cottages with showhouse | Rouken Glen, by Thornliebank | Renfrewshire | Scotland | ||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this : | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| McDonald, J R H | 1931 | Modern housing: a review of present housing requirements in Great Britain | Glasgow: Carson & Nicol | ||
| McKean, Charles | 1987 | The Scottish Thirties: An Architectural Introduction | Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press | pp171-3 | |
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this : | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Country Life | 8 June 1935 | 77, no 2003 | ||
| Edinburgh Evening News | 6 October 1932 | p3 | ||
| Motherwell Times | 6 August 1932 | p3 | ||
| Motherwell Times | 21 October 1932 | p6 | ||
Archive References
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| Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | |
| Courtesy of Morag Cross | Information sent to DSA | ||