India Tyres
The major part of the site and some of the buildings, including a large hangar, were purchased by India Tyres in December 1927. The company set about redeveloping it.
Based on a plan of the Airship construction station, the existing hangar appears to have comprised three adjacent shops: the Frame Shop, the Girder Shop and the Car shop. It was reused as a rubber mill building, where the rubber was compounded and the tyres were manufactured, and a linked raw materials store.
Other separate buildings were erected for storage of carbon black and finished products. The carbon black storage silo was separate; by the 1970s it appears to occupy part of the former hydrogen generation plant / bottled gas storage area.
India Tyres commissioned their Art Deco office block in 1930, strategically located in front of their mill building west of Glasgow on Greenock Road, the A8 road from Edinburgh to Greenock. It is similar in style to Wallis, Gilbert and Partners' Hoover Building in Perivale, London. Construction work was completed, and the building opened in 1931. India Tyres also built two groups of houses to accommodate its workers: "Allands Avenue" and "India Drive". The office block remained in use for its original purpose for some 50 years.
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