Given that the River Gryfe, Dargavel Burn and Paisley's civic supply were all located nearby, Fulwood provided an ideal site for the factory.

The nearby Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway was also a major factor in locating the factory at Fulwood.

[2] The factory was to be responsible for assembling 40,000 items of quick-firing ammunition and 200,000 lbs of breech-load cartridges on a weekly basis.

Architects were consulted to draw up plans for a factory consisting of ammunition assembly rooms and areas for the filling of cartridges.

The Sir Robert McAlpine construction company was selected to build the factory and commenced on 25 September 1915.

[2] All the National Filling Factories employed a high proportion of women workers, typically 15:1, female:male.

Most also employed "Lady Superintendents", who were responsible for managing the recruitment, discipline, welfare and housing of the female staff, in what would be recognised now as a personnel or human resources role.

[2] Georgetown was, in this respect, no different from the majority of the other filling factories, but it was unique in that it also had female managers on the technical side.

She became Works Manager of No.1 Factory in July 1916, which included the filling of QF (Quick firing) cartridges.

Miss Borthwick had two assistant works managers, one of whom was a languages graduate from Somerville College, Oxford, Ethel May Kerr who began her training at Armstrong-Whitworth’s in Newcastle in 1915, to become a munitions worker.

Six locomotives were available for shunting purposes and a mechanical haulage system moved specially built wagons around the factory.