Macrae & Dick Ltd

Macrae & Dick was incorporated, i.e. became a limited company, in 1922. Further expansion followed not only in the company’s normal activities as motor agents, engineers and hiring contractors but also in ancillary fields of road haulage, road passenger and air passenger services.

The air travel connection arose in 1932 as the result of the formation, in association with Captain E.E. Freeson, of Highland Airways Ltd. Highland Airways provided an air passenger service from Inverness to Wick and Orkney and, in 1934 was awarded the contract by the Royal Mail – thereby becoming the first air service operator to be granted the Royal Mail Pennant for the carriage of mail by air.. That company was sold in 1939 to British Airways.

Today the company’s operations are concentrated exclusively within the retail motor industry and related fields and Macrae and Dick holds the franchises for a number of quality manufacturers – Land Rover, Mazda, Ford, Honda and Jaguar – at various locations throughout Scotland.