Question: By 1938, Harry McEvoy had established a large factory in Greater Manchester, what is the population of that city?

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Greater Manchester County Council: The Greater Manchester County Council (GMCC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater Manchester from 1974 to 1986.  A strategic authority, with responsibilities for public transport, planning, emergency services and waste disposal, it was composed of 106 members drawn from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.  The Greater Manchester County Council shared power with ten lower-tier district councils, each of which directed local matters.  It was also known as the Greater Manchester Council (GMC) and the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County Council (GMMCC).

Harry McEvoy: Harry McEvoy (16 August 1902 – 3 November 1984) was a British industrialist and food manufacturer.  He was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Bradford Grammar School before heading to America to study for a business degree at Columbia University.  At the end of his studies he became a salesman for a small cereal company in Battle Creek, Michigan run by Will Keith Kellogg.  Such was his success that he was promoted and given the task of returning to his native England in order to put the Kellogg Company well and truly on the map there.  By 1938 he had established a large factory in Stretford, Greater Manchester, which is still a major force in cereal production today.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority: The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is the combined authority of Greater Manchester, England.  It was established on 1 April 2011 and consists of eleven indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester together with the Mayor of Greater Manchester.  The authority derives most of its powers from the Local Government Act 2000 and Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, and replaced a range of single-purpose joint boards and quangos to provide a formal administrative authority for Greater Manchester for the first time since the abolition of the Greater Manchester County Council in 1986.

Demography of Greater Manchester: The demography of Greater Manchester is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data is produced for each of its ten metropolitan boroughs, each of the Greater Manchester electoral wards, the NUTS3 statistical sub-regions, each of the Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester, the 15 civil parishes in Greater Manchester, and for all of Greater Manchester as a whole; the latter of which had a population of 2,682,500 at the 2011 UK census.  Additionally, data is produced for the Greater Manchester Urban Area.  Statistical information is produced about the size and geographical breakdown of the population, the number of people entering and leaving country and the number of people in each demographic subgroup.

Transport for Greater Manchester: Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.  The organisation traces its origins to the Transport Act 1968, when the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive was established to co-ordinate public transport in and around Manchester.  Between 1974 and 2011, this body was known as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), until a reformation of local government arrangements in Greater Manchester granted the body more powers and prompted a corporate rebranding.  The strategies and policies of Transport for Greater Manchester are set by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and its Transport for Greater Manchester Committee.

Greater Manchester Built-up Area: The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the urban element of the city of Manchester and the continuous metropolitan area that spreads outwards from it, forming much of Greater Manchester in North West England.  According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area has a population of 2,553,379 making it the second most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom after the Greater London Built-up Area and the thirteenth largest in the European Union.  This was an increase of 14% from the population recorded at the United Kingdom Census 2001 of 2,240,230, when it was known as the Greater Manchester Urban Area.

Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority: The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) was a local government institution responsible for the strategic direction of passenger transport in Greater Manchester.  It existed from 1969 to 1974 as the SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority and was then replaced by Greater Manchester County Council.  It was created again in 1986 as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority.  It was renamed in 2008 as the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority.  Policy of the authority was delivered by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive.  It was replaced by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in 2011.

Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner: The Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by the Greater Manchester Police in Greater Manchester.  The post was created on 21 November 2012, following an election held on 15 November 2012, and replaced the Greater Manchester Police Authority.  Upon the creation of a Mayor of Greater Manchester and the inaugural election to that position, the duties of Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner were absolved into the mayoralty and the office itself abolished.  For the entirety of its existence, the commissioner was Labour Party politician Tony Lloyd.  The police and crime commissioner was required to produce a strategic Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan, setting out the priorities for the Greater Manchester Police, and their work is scrutinised by the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel.  In November 2014 it was announced that the role would be replaced with a directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, and the term of office of the incumbent commissioner was extended to May 2017.

Stretford: Stretford (pop.  37,500) is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.  Lying on flat ground between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, it is 3.8 mi to the southwest of Manchester city centre, 3.0 mi south-southwest of Salford and 4.2 mi northeast of Altrincham.  Stretford is contiguous with the suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy to the east, and the towns of Urmston to the west, Salford to the north, and Sale to the south.  The Bridgewater Canal bisects the town.

Mayor of Greater Manchester: The Mayor of Greater Manchester is a directly elected political post responsible for the strategic government of Greater Manchester, including health, transport, housing, strategic planning, waste management, policing, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills.  The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester was agreed between the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders.  As well as having specific powers, the Mayor chairs the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, also assuming the powers of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.  Tony Lloyd was appointed as Interim Mayor for Greater Manchester on 29 May 2015.

Supporting paragraphs: Harry McEvoy Stretford
Answer: 37,500