From the archives: Scotland’s part in research; 24 September 1949
The report is that of the Advisory Council. Mr Herbert Morrison, as Lord President of the Council, signed the report of the Privy Council Committee on Scientific and Industrial Research. This states that within the British Isles the Department had found an increasing need for representation outside London. As a first step, a branch of the headquarters office had been established in Edinburgh to act as a centre for Scottish science and industry, for the collection and dissemination of information. “An important future development,” states Mr Morrison, “is our decision to place the new Mechanical Engineering Research Organisation in Scotland, at East Kilbride, near Glasgow, and to set up branch laboratories of the Building, Fuel, and Road Research Organisations nearby.”