Scotland has turned out endless inventors of great genius in the past few hundred years, and Charles Macintosh — the man who brought waterproof clothing to the world — was as successful as any of them. Martin Fone tells the story of the macintosh — and how it became the ‘mackintosh’.
‘Where there’s muck, there’s brass’, ‘where there’s muck, there’s money’, ‘muck and money go together’… No matter which way you’ve come across the…