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Transport - Car in front of Courier Buildings - Ref: WC1017

Transport - Car in front of Courier Buildings

The Courier Building (home of the D. C. Thomson newspaper empire) was opened at No. 22 Meadowside, Dundee, in 1902. The plans were by Niven & Wigglesworth, a London company (though Niven was born in Angus).

The sculptures above the doorway are of Literature and Justice, and are the work of Albert Hemstock Hodge (1876-1918), a Glasgow sculptor and painter who exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1897 and 1898.

Clearly few people in Dundee at this time could afford a car (even though the number of millionaires in the city exceeded anywhere else in Great Britain per capita), so it is probably safe to assume that the car belonged to a member of the Thomson family.