Between 1961 and 1964, the Clydebank manufacturing facility underwent a £4 million modernization program which noticed the Clydebank factory stop the manufacturing of cast iron machines and concentrate on the production of aluminium machines for western markets. As a part of this modernisation programme, the well-known Singer Clock was demolished in 1963. At the height of its productiveness within the mid Sixties, Singer employed over 16,000 employees but by the tip of that decade, obligatory redundancies were happening and 10 years later the workforce was down to five,000. Financial problems and lack of orders compelled the world’s largest sewing machine manufacturing facility to shut in June 1980, bringing to an end over 100 years of sewing machine manufacturing in Scotland. With nearly one million sq. feet of space and nearly 7,000 staff, it was possible to produce on average 13,000 machines every week, making it the most important sewing machine manufacturing unit in the world. The Clydebank manufacturing facility was so productive that in 1905, the U.S. Singer Company arrange and registered the Singer Manufacturing Company Ltd. in the United Kingdom.

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