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Description: | On the front of the nopte:- D/A oooooo (mock serial numbers one at top left one at bottom right), SPECIMEN (over printing the note in red) CLYDESDALE BANK LIMITED PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT THEIR OFFICE HERE TWENTY POUNDS BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 20 (value of note unprinted in a maroon circular tooled pattern and repeated). A. L. Macmillan (signature) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER GLASGOW 1st MARCH 1972, LORD KELVIN (under the image which is of Lord Kelvin adjusting the azimuth sight of a binnacle compass) The front of the note is printed in maroon with tints of green-grey. On the reverse of the note:- SPECIMEN (over printed in red), 20 (value of not unprinted on maroon tooled circular pattern), The image is of the Kelvin Lecture theatre 1870-1904 now the senate room. The reverse of the note is in maroon with green tints. ISSU Clydesdale Bank Limited June 1977 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow G1 2HL, Scotland This is one of a pair of specimen bank notes donated by the Clydesdale Bank, who issued a series of notes in the early seventies commemorating Kelvin, Burns, Bruce and Livingston. N.B. The original typed label suggests that the lecture theatre was in use from 1870-1907 in fact Kelvi retired in 1899 and the Natural Philosophy decamped from the Gilbert Scot Building to a new building in 1904. This is now part of the Kelvin Building the earlier construction having been extended to house the synchrotron in in 1950 further laboratory facilities were added in 1960 and seperate building constructed in 1966 at East Kilbride called the Kelvin Laboratory to house the linear accelerator. On loan to the Physics and Astronomy Department EXIT NUMBER 2092 it is object 14 in display case C Kelvin & 'the New Professors ', in room 470, The Kelvin Building, Department of Physics and Astronomy Glasgow University. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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