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Catalogue description Holman Brothers Ltd
This record is held by Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)
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| Title: | Holman Brothers Ltd |
| Description: |
Accounts, photographs, minutes, deeds, leases, annual reports and other miscellaneous company records of Holmans and subsidiary Companies including the Climax Rock Drilland engineering Company Ltd |
| Date: | 1684-1987 |
| Held by: | Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office), not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 857 files |
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Accession 2421 Records deposited by the Company Secretary, Compair Construction and Mining Ltd., Camborne via Mr. A.G. Harris, Engineering Director, 12th July 1978. Accession No 2576 Additional records deposited by the Company, Secretary, Compair Construction and Mining Ltd., Camborne via Mr. Anthony Barber, 7th June 1979. Accession 2789 Additional deposit by company Secretary, (via A.D. Barber), CompAir Construction and Mining Limited, Camborne, 22nd July 1980. Accession 5526 Deposited on 30 October 1998 Accession 5539 Deposited on 16 November 1998 Accession 5635 Deposited on 19 April 1999 Accession 5701 Deposited on 9 August 1999 |
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The records are of the firm of Holman's whose boiler works at Pool and foundry at Camborne date back to 1801 and 1839 respectively, the boiler works being transferred from Pool to Roskear in 1892. Rock tools and pneumatic tools began to be manufactured on a large scale after the First World War. See Bernard Hollowood, Cornish Engineers. Published for private circulation by Holman Bros. Ltd. 1951. (The 150th anniversary of the firm of Holman which began with the boiler works at Pool, established by Nicholas Holman in 1801). |
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