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The B<£cT diesel engine works as they were to be seen in the years before th e fr s t 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 Alosquito aircraft o f the British Royal Air Force on January 2yth 1943-

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. 145-). 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 fire (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 $ h ). The next owner was M. D. Halberstadt who built a large steam mill on the site (ill. p. 193).

F R O M T H E G A R D E N O F K J E R L IL F T O 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. 157), he moved the business to larger and be tte r premises (ill. p. 1 99)

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