Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company access cover in Bowling near Glasgow. Established in 1901, it aimed to build power stations in Yoker, Motherwell and Crookston to provide electricity to customers in Glasgow and the surrounding areas. Only the first two were ever built. In 1927, it built the first hydro-electric power station in Scotland at Bonnington on the Falls of Clyde. In 1948, the company was nationalised.
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