The club was the works side[clarification needed] for Glasgow Corporation Transport, the corporation which provided public transport in the city. The idea of having a club to represent the transport workers, whose depots had their own amateur league, seems to have been coincident with the idea of building an athletics venue for the workers; the club was founded the year before the ground was opened.
In 1966, the club became a full senior member. It joined the Combined Reserve Football League in 1967[4] and once again entered the Scottish Cup. The club's major success came when they qualified for the competition proper in 1970-71. The club received a bye in the first round and was drawn to play at Brechin City in the second, travelling to Brechin (as was usual for away matches) on a Glasgow Corporation bus.[5] The club lost 4–1, two of the City goals coming from the penalty spot.[6]
At the end of the season, the corporation handed the Helenvale ground over to Glasgow City Council; without its own ground, the club lost its senior status, and was wound up within a few years.[7] By this time few of the players were Corporation employees.[8]
The club played in royal blue shirts until 1931,[10] when it changed to green shirts, white shorts, and orange socks, which matched the corporation's livery colours.[11]
Grounds
The club's home ground was Helenvale Park in Parkhead, converted from a series of bowling greens[12] into an athletics track and football pitch, within a few dozen yards of Celtic Park. The ground's opening match was a friendly between Rangers and Partick Thistle, ceremonially kicked off by the Duke of York, later to become King George VI.[13] The ground was used by Scottish Athletics for the national championships on several occasions.[14]
References
^"S.F.A. Meeting". Lothian Courier: 8. 22 August 1930.
^Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1930-31". The Beautiful Dribbling Game. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
