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The B
(Sl
W diesel engine
works as thej were
to be seen in theyears
before th efrst world war.
The works later have been
rebuilt as a series
o f large machine halls.
During the German
occupation o f Copenhagen
they were bombed by
Mosquito aircraft o f the
British Royal Air Force
on January 2 Jth
1943
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H O L M ,
H A G E A N D H A L B E R S T A D T
Among the great merchants who at various times owned property that now
forms the site of B & W ’ s works was Jakob Holm (ill. p. 14^). He lived to
gether with his family at Strandgade 4 (ill. p. 143), and it was from his owner
ship that the old shipyard derived its name of Holm’ s Place. Several of the
ships built here were for his own fleet of traders (ill. p. 146), but it was also
from this yard that the first danish-built steam ship »Frederik VI« came though
her machinery was made in England (ill. p. 147). A great hre (ill. pp. 148, 149)
left the shipyard undamaged but eventually shipbuilding declined here and
finally ceased altogether. The Schimmelmanns’ successor at the sugar refinery
was the firm of Puggaard and Company. Under the direction of Alfred Hage,
who was among other things a politician and lived in great style, it carried on
a flourishing business as corn merchants (ill. p. i £ i ) . The next owner was
M. D. Halberstadt who built a large steam mill on the site (ill. p.
1 53 ) .
F R O M T H E G A R D E N O F K J E R U L F TO K N I P P E L S B R O
In 1843, H. H. Baumgarten started a small engineering workshop in Copen
hagen. Three years later on entering into partnership with C. C. Burmeister
(ill. p. 1 £7), he moved the business to larger and better premises (ill. p.
1 95)
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