5 Pounds Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank

The Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank name itself was a product of a 1950 merger between the Clydesdale Bank and the North of Scotland Bank, creating an institution with a geographically ambiguous identity that the Scottish public never quite warmed to — the "North of Scotland" branding was dropped in 1963 when the bank reverted to plain Clydesdale Bank Limited, which neatly brackets the issue window for this note.

De La Rue's involvement in Scottish commercial bank printing during this period was not unusual, but the timing places this note in the last years before Clydesdale's absorption into the Midland Bank orbit accelerated modernization of the series.