sentences:  Despite objections from the Royal and Bank of Scotland, the Company succeeded in 1813 but it was still refused permission to call itself British Linen Bank – a status not achieved until 1906.As British Linen began to develop its banking business, it found it had a ready-made structure in the form of the old linen agencies and these were used to varying degrees.Around 1760 some of the Company's agents "were direct to circulate the Company's notes and to 'open accounts with such friends as could be depended on Branches opened after 1760 were designed to carry out banking transactions.