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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Robinson and Hole

From Graces Guide
1906 Robinson and Hole car designed by Angus Charles Marjoribanks Maitland.[1]

of Rythe Works, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, car maker.

1904 Business established by Herbert Willans Robinson and Mr Hole.

1905 Advertisement. Robinson and Hole, Rythe Works, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton. Engineers and Motor Car Manufacturers.[2]

1906. Produced a 16-20 h.p. car with shaft-drive and four-cylinder engine. Described as British made. [3] Designed by Angus Maitland. "The Robinson and Hole Car was a most excellent machine, and quite recently (ie 1910) the candidate (ie H W Robinson) receives most favourable reports from those owning these cars"[4]

1907 Petition for winding up of the company by a creditor[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Image courtesy of [[1]]
  2. ↑ Surrey Comet - Saturday 19 August 1905
  3. ↑ The Automobile Vol. III. Edited by Paul N. Hasluck and published by Cassell in 1906.
  4. ↑ 1910 Proposal for H W Robinson's membership of I Mech E
  5. ↑ London Gazette 15 October 1907