Dundee, Harrison Road, Timex Factory
Factory (20th Century)
Site Name Dundee, Harrison Road, Timex Factory
Classification Factory (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Us Time
Canmore ID 70494
Site Number NO33SE 101
NGR NO 37159 32964
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/70494
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Publication Account (2013)
TIMEX WATCH
Harrison Rd
One of two factories, with NCR, built to attract American investment in the immediate wake of WWII. Watch production started temporarily in
a farmhouse in 1947 and switched to the new factory in 1948. This very long factory with clean horizontal lines on the brow of a hill, was designed
by Bennet, Beard and Wilkins and built of stock brick. Here, and in two other factories at Milton and Dunsinane, 1500 employees in the early
1960s increased to 2500 in the 1970s, mainly women. Timex was the largest domestic supplier of watches to UK, and yet exported 90% of its
products. Timex also developed with Sir Clive Sinclair the Sinclair C5, his flat screen TV and other light engineering products. After a long strike in
1992 it was sold and now makes kitchen units.
M Watson, 2013
