explain the benefits brought to scottish industries by the great war

Question 1

Coal mining benefited from government investment as they received modern and more efficient coal cutting equipment

Answer 1

This increased production and lead to better safety

Question 2

Coal was required to power homes as usual but was also necessary to fuel trains carrying troops, weapons and vital supply’s to the front line

Answer 2

This meant it was in high demand and so wages where increased

Question 3

With shipbuilding so successful the iron and steel industries thrived as they where required to make war ships

Answer 3

Steel outpute doubled during the war

Question 4

Shipbuilding was extremely successful as a result of the war

Answer 4

Profits where huge and ports where receiving orders worth over £16 million

Question 5

The jute industry also thrived as a result of the Great War because it was required to make sand bags which lined the trenches to stop bullets hitting soldiers

Answer 5

One Dundee newspaper described jute as strands of gold

Question 6

The shipbuilding industry also brought increased employment as a result of high demand during the Great War

Answer 6

The industry employed aprox 100,000 workers