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Birniehill Institute of Advanced Machine Tool and Control Technology

From Graces Guide

1967 " '... the success or failure of the institute will depend on how close a relationship it can maintain with industry.' Temporary premises should be ready for the institute staff next to the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride ...[1]

1969 "Design collaboration with Industry. This Institute (recently established by the Ministry of Technology) will be a national centre for the study of the art and practice of engineering design, particularly associated with the use and production of advanced ..."[2]

1970 ".... of machines for making families of components. ... is to be held on Wednesday, August 26 at the Ministry of Technology's Birniehill Institute, East Kilbride. The seminar will give an introduction to group technology, the use of which can lead to big increases ..."[3]

1970 " Money lost on wrong tools, says professor. ... vast sums of money on machine-tool gadgets which will never be used, according to Professor P. H. Stephenson, of the Birniehill Institute, who spoke at a preview yesterday of an exhibition at the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride."[4]

1973 "... one-day seminar held the ... Department of Trade and Industry on October 10. It will take place at the Birniehill Institute, at the National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride. ...[5]

1988 "The Birniehill Institute was completed in 1970 as a part-teaching part-research laboratory closely linked to Strathclyde University. The Institute closed however in 1972 and since that time the building ..."[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Scotsman 29 August 1967
  2. The Scotsman 11 October 1969
  3. Irvine Herald 14 August 1970
  4. The Scotsman 22 September 1970
  5. The Scotsman 04 September 1973
  6. East Kilbride News 24 June 1988