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Holman Brothers Ltd. was a mining equipment manafacture founded in 1801 based in Camborne
Camborne

Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, UK.








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Holman Brothers Ltd. was a mining equipment manafacture founded in 1801 based in Camborne
Camborne

Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, UK.

Holman was Camborne's, and indeed Cornwall's largest manufacturer of industrial equipment. Holman played a part in World War II making the famous Sten
Sten

The Sten was a family of United Kingdom 9x19mm Parabellum submachine guns used extensively by Commonwealth of Nations forces throughout World War II and the Korean War....
 submachine gun
Submachine gun

A submachine gun is a firearm that combines the automatic firearm of a machine gun with the cartridge of a pistol, and is usually between the two in weight and size....
. It also produced The Holman Projector
Holman Projector

The Holman Projector was an anti-aircraft warfare weapon used by the Royal Navy during World War II, primarily between early 1940 and late 1941....
 for the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
. At its height Holmans was spread over three sites within Camborne, employing some three and half thousand men.