holman and sons

One of the four Managing Directors, at the time, Mr. Walter Holman, of St. Just, was drafted into the Royal Engineers in 1916, and was at first based at Sandwich Kent. When two crews were required to take over some large tugs which had been purchased from S. America, and which had been trading...

THE GREAT WAR. Soon after the opening of Holman’s new garage in 1914, the Great War broke out, and a very difficult period of the firm's history was entered upon. Although Penzance was too far removed from the centre of things to have shared in the visible turmoil and danger, many of the...

MISFORTUNE. A fire which destroyed many hundreds of pounds' worth of moulding patterns occurred in 1907, which greatly handicapped the supplying of replacement castings for some years, but the loss was made good eventually, and modious stores were created in place of those destroyed. Until 1921...