Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture comes from a short film showing Holt presenting to the LCC an ambulance donated to the British war effort by the Non-British Employees of two Argentinean railways, the Entre Rios and the Argentine North-Eastern Railway both of which were chaired by Holt.
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Sir Follett Holt, KBE
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Sir Follett Holt
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London steam carriage
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
1 memorial
George Furness
Contractor responsible for the construction of the Northern Outfall Sewer in 1862-3.
1 memorial
Automobile Association
The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
1 memorial
Edward H. Tabor
Resident engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
2 memorials
William Baker
Railway engineer. In London he built the Battersea Railway Bridge, and was consulting engineer on the West London Extension Railway and the North London Railway.
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