The proposals were the outcome of a final thesis developed by Stewart Lang and Gordon Murray at University of Strathclyde over forty-five years ago, in session 1975-6. The drawings as submitted were drawn by myself (Professor Gordon Murray PPRIAS) and formed the basis of my award of the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver medal in 1977. The originals were draw on double elephant size (A0+) 120-gram tracing paper using rotring pens and ink with coloured film. These were restored a few years ago on the occasion of an exhibition entitled Why We Draw at University of Strathclyde. The submission is scanned copies of the originals. The thesis subject of a shipbuilding factory was very much a child of its time. Attracting interest from the management at Scott Lithgow on the lower Clyde but borne out of the constructive insurrection of UCS in Govan and a similar workers cooperative at the Triumph motorcycle plant at Meriden in the West Midlands. Less than five years later Japanese factory production methods applied to the construction of super-tankers led to a glut in the world shipping market. At one time several vessels produced on the Clyde were lying mothballed in the Kyles of Bute. The site of our proposals was at Meadowside on the north back at the confluence of the rivers Clyde and Kelvin. It encompassed the remnants of D+ W Henderson Shipbuilders yard and graving dock. Valkyrie II which challenged for the 1893 Americas Cup race was built there; designed by George Watson for Lord Dunraven. The main concept behind the plant being factory-based manufacture of large assemblies of medium sized vessels based on those Japanese methods, focused on the specialist vessels for which the Clyde was famous.

This second folio is three perspective drawings of the proposals. The externals are views form sea level and aerial above the River Kelvin and the internal one is the factory production space.