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The photography firm of Turnbull & Sons was located at 75 Jamaica Street, Glasgow from 1865-1884, and at 10 Jamaica Street from 1885-1908. The company established a presence in Greenock in 1881 and later set up studios in Belfast, Larne, Hawick, Kilmarnock and London. J. G. Mainds appears to have been the Proprietor of the studios in both Greenock and Kilmarnock from about 1892, and the firm’s name was changed to Turnbull & Mainds around 1909.

Turner & Newall (T&N) was a leading manufacturing business based in Manchester, UK. The company was one of the first to industrialise asbestos. Its demise in 2001 left an aftermath of asbestos litigation.

The business originated with Turner Brothers, founded in Rochdale in 1871 to manufacture cotton-cloth-based packaging. In 1920 Turner Brothers merged with the Washington Chemical Company, Newalls Insulation Company, and J W Roberts to become Turner & Newall. That year T&N also became listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Subsequently the company acquired Bells' United Asbestos Companies and several asbestos insulation companies in the UK, among others operating a plant in Armley, West Yorkshire, and an asbestos mine in Bulembu, Swaziland, Southern Africa. After World War II T&N diversified into components for the automotive industry (including gaskets). In 1953 it also bought Porters Cement Industries Ltd, a major producer of chrysotile asbestos products based in Salisbury and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (at the time: Southern Rhodesia).

In 1998 T&N was acquired by Federal Mogul, which as a result of a surge of asbestos-related personal injury claims filed for Chapter 11 protection. In the UK the business went into administration in October 2001, leaving a pension fund deficit estimated at £400 million.

Parts of T&N continue trading. Porters Cement Industries Ltd, for instance, which had been renamed Turnall Fibre Cement Ltd after becoming part of T&N in 1952, continues to operate as an independent company in Zimbabwe, mainly producing asbestos cement sheets and pipes.

The T&N Subfund of the Federal Mogul Asbestos Trust was organised to process, liquidate, and pay all valid Asbestos Trust claims for which T&N entities have legal responsibility. The Trust was created 27 December 2007 as a result of the confirmation of The Federal-Mogul Chapter 11 Joint Plan of Reorganization. For claimants whose principal exposure to asbestos was in the UK or one of several other non-US countries, a UK Asbestos Trust was established to provide for the payment of asbestos claims.

Stanley Tweddle was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Carlisle Technical College. He gained City and Guilds Certificates in Automobile Engineering and Electrical Engineering while working at Graham and Roberts Ltd, a large private car and commercial vehicle distributor and dealership. He joined Albion Motors, Scotstoun, Glasgow as an apprentice and attended evening classes at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1938. He served with the Royal Navy during World War Two, working his way up to the rank of Lieutenant (Engineering). After the war, he rejoined Albion Motors and attended the Royal Technical College as a sandwich student from 1948 to 1952 and was awarded the Associateship of the College. In 1950, he joined Fibreglass Ltd as a production department manager. In 1952 he attended Syracuse University in New York State. On his return, he became Chief Engineer of Fibreglass. He retired in 1981.

Geoffrey Tweedale was Professor of Business History at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. He has a long-standing interest in the history of occupational health and has written studies on asbestos-related diseases, byssinosis, silicosis, and cancers in the chemical and cotton industries.

His publications relating specifically to the asbestos industry include:

• 'Magic mineral to killer dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard' (2nd edition, 2001: Oxford University Press)
• (with Laurie Flynn) 'Piercing the corporate veil: Cape Industries and multinational corporate liability for a toxic hazard, 1950-2004', 'Enterprise and society' 8 (2) (2007), 268-296, DOI: 10.1017/S1467222700005863
• (with Jock McCulloch) 'Defending the indefensible: the global asbestos industry and its fight for survival (2008: Oxford University Press)

William, or ‘Bill’, Tyler was born in Salford in 1920. He won a scholarship to Salford Grammar School and following his education, he worked at Salford Public Library. During the War he joined the Royal Navy and he met and married Marie Orr. After the War, Tyler returned to his library studies and became a part-time lecturer in the Manchester College of Technology. He moved to Scotland in 1950 as head of the Scottish School of Librarianship at the Scottish College of Commerce in Glasgow.
Under his leadership Strathclyde University awarded the UK’s first university degrees in librarianship in 1969 and he was appointed to the first Chair in librarianship in the UK in 1970.
Tyler became more widely involved in the management of the University, serving as the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Studies, and serving as Vice Principal from 1980 until retirement in 1984.
He also served as staff club president at the College of Commerce and at the University of Strathclyde where he was involved in the purchase and development of Ross Priory. Tyler was president of the Scottish Library Association in 1970.

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was a pioneer in the field of town planning. In an international career spanning sixty years, she practised as a landscape architect and town planner in addition to teaching and research, and contributed greatly to the professional associations in her field, particularly to the Congrés Internationeaux d'Architecture Moderne. In later years, she edited the international journal, 'Ekistics'.

Tyrwhitt was born in South Africa but moved to London at an early age. Initially her career was in garden design and landscape architecture, with some social and economic planning projects. Following periods of study in London and Berlin, her interest in town planning intensified. She taught courses in London during and after World War II and embarked on a lecture tour of Canada and the USA in 1945. She took up posts at the New School of Social Research in New York in 1948, Yale University and Toronto in 1951 and Harvard in 1955. She was Associate Professor of Urban Design at Harvard University from 1958-1969 and acted as a United Nations consultant on housing and education programmes. With Constantin Doxiadis she founded the journal, 'Ekistics', in 1955 and moved permanently to Greece in 1969.

Tyrwhitt stated that Sir Patrick Geddes was perhaps the most important formative influence on her career. In her teaching she emphasised the need for an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to planning, the use of the region as a planning unit and the importance of social and economic factors. Geddes' use of 'thinking machines' and other diagrams made a particular impression on her. She was instrumental in bringing Geddes' town planning theories to a wider audience after his death in 1932.

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The Squadron was formed 13 January 1941. Its objectives were to promote an interest in the Royal Air Force and in aviation matters amongst the staff and students of the University, to encourage and train students wishing to take up aeronautics as a profession either in the Royal Air Force or in a civilian capacity and to give suitable Squadron members an opportunity to obtain commissions in the Royal Air Force on graduation.

Flying was initially carried out from the Royal Naval Air Station at Abbotsinch, which later became Glasgow Airport. In 1950, while the airfield was having its runways relaid, the Squadron moved to Scone Airfield at Perth. In 1969, it moved back to Glasgow Airport.

The Gliding Club was open to undergraduates, postgraduates, staff and graduates of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.

Local committees for the training of teachers were established in 1895 in connection with the ancient Scottish universities, as a means of training university graduates for secondary school teaching. The University of Glasgow was late in establishing such a committee in 1903. In its few years of existence, the Glasgow committee trained around 100 students per year. The King's students attended university classes for most of their studies, but had tuition elsewhere in school methods, phonetics, physical training and other subjects necessary for teaching. The work of the Glasgow King's Students Committee was subsumed within the new Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, set up in 1905.