October 2, 2011
More from the Argyll Works…

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Before the Great War there was a thriving motor industry in Scotland. Argyll motors deliberate marketed to women, as you can see from the above advert, which makes them rather dashing for the period. 

The hero of Green Grow the Rushes, Ralph Erskine, rather reluctantly, gets into the motor business in Scotland and makes a great success of it, marketing shooting brakes to the Scots gentry.