In June 1937, only 6 months before he died, Sir Thomas, who had by then been a baronet for more than twenty years, reflected upon his boyhood in Glasgow in a series of three articles written for the Glasgow Herald.  In the first article he noted that in the early 1860s, before Glasgow's largest docks were constructed, he fished for minnows in the River Clyde; but he also remarked upon the fascination that Glasgow's docklands, with their tall 'ships from distant lands and seamen of strange tongues', had for himself and other Glasgow boys.  He wrote of the 'grace and beauty' of 'stately sailing ship', and how, in those days, one could buy goods, like apples, directly from vessels tied up at the quayside. In the second article, Sir Thomas, who was well-known as a Clyde yachstman, pointed out that in his boyhood there were very few yachting clubs on the Clyde, and that those that did exist were exclusive and well beyond the budget of most people, including, it would appear, himself, for his first sailing boat was a dinghy 'with a sail made out of packing sheet'.  His interest in yachting, he explained, developed from the rowing regattas for boys held on the Firth of Clyde at Cove, Kilcreggan and Blairmore, in the 1860s and 1870s.  It is perhaps interesting to note here that two of Thomas's siblings, Alexandra Margaret Scott and James Charles Boyd, were born at Blairmore in summer months, which might suggest that the Dunlop family was in the habit of vacationing at Blairmore.  That seems even more likely when a study of the local press reveals that a Thomas and a Robert Dunlop, of the appropriate ages, did compete in the Blairmore Junior Rowing Regattas about that time. In his third article Sir Thomas wrote of the coming of the cycle to Glasgow; the machine, that is, before the penny-farthing.  They could be hired, he remembered, from 'an enterprising merchant' at the gates of Kelvingrove Park, and most people exercised 'extreme caution' when trying them out.  Sir Thomas also noted that when he began his business training, at 16 years of age, Glasgow offices were without telephones or typewiters.