Its legal headquarters were to be at AG Barr’s existing head office in Cumbernauld, Scotland, while the operational headquarters would have been in Hemel Hempstead in southern England, where Britvic is based.
The area is often considered as the triangle defined by the M8, M80 motorway and M9 motorways stretching from Greenock and Glasgow in the west to Edinburgh in the east, encompassing towns such as Paisley, Cambuslang, Hamilton, Stirling, Falkirk, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Bathgate.
The Flemings (who would become the Earls of Wigtown) later took the decision to build their castle in Cumbernauld.
Cumbernauld was not included in either of the new Dunbartonshire councils, instead being placed in the North Lanarkshire area.
The smelting process required limestone, conveyed at first by horse and cart from the Cumbernauld area; and fireclay, available in the Gartsherrie and Garnkirk areas, for manufacturing refractory bricks for lining the kilns and withstanding high temperatures.
Prior to this, Glasgow had six other professional clubs: Clyde, which moved to Cumbernauld, plus Third Lanark, Cambuslang F.C, Port Glasgow Athletic F.C., Cowlairs F.C. and Clydesdale F.C., who all went bankrupt.
After a stillborn attempt in 1995 to purchase KCB, Stagecoach settled for a 20% stake in competitor Strathclyde Buses who purchased KCB), the present Stagecoach Glasgow operations were launched in 1997, after Strathclyde Buses sold to First Group, and offered fast, direct and frequent services from Glasgow City Centre to Easterhouse, Castlemilk, Pollok, Darnley, East Kilbride and Cumbernauld.
Whilst the SBG units began operating services within Glasgow's city limits, Strathclyde PTE started or extended services to places including East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Balloch and Johnstone.