New Whisky Warehouse

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29778, 22 March 1962, Page 11

New Whisky Warehouse

Production is expected to begin soon at this new blending, bottling and warehouse premises lor Wm. Teacher and Sons, Ltd., at Craigpark Springburn, Glasgow. The largest independent Scotch whisky business, the family firm has been managed by the founder and his descendants Since 1830. The premises have been built, at a cost of more than £lm. almost exclusively by Scottish industry, and are the largest and most modern of their kind in Great Britain.

The full capacity at Craigpark is almost three times that of Teacher’s old bottling premises in Glasgow, which is an indication of the increased demand for the firm’s whisky, since the “free” dis tribution of whisky in Great Britain was reintroduced in 1959. One of the features of the new premises is that the lie of the land gives the site two-

levels. This facilitates the delivery of the incoming casks of single malt whisky from the distilleries at Ardmore and Glendronach, Aberdeenshire, and the dispatch of the blended whisky, bottled and cartoned, and bound both for the home market and overseas, where whisky sales earn millions of pounds of foreign exchange each year The picture is an aerial view of the new premises, including the main warehouse roof large enough for a football pitch and suitable for the landing of helicopters.