Sir William Johnston Thomson MIME (1881–1949) was a Scottish engineer and businessman involved in the early automobile industry.
He served his apprenticeship as an engineer at J & T Boyd, manufacturers of textile-making machines at Shettleston Ironworks in Glasgow.
[1] Around 1899 he joined the firm Pollock, McNab & Highgate based at Carntyne Station in Shettleston.
In 1905 Thomson founded the Scottish Motor Traction Company (known as the SMT) which began operations at 9 Lauriston Street in south-west Edinburgh in 1906.
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