Chattanooga's First Independent Auto-repair Garage
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N 35° 03.178 W 085° 18.570
16S E 654169 N 3880223
First indiependent auto-repair garage.
Waymark Code: WM25R1
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2007
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ERNEST WALTER HOLMES, SR.
1883-1945
Born in 1883, Ernest Walter Holmes, Sr., opend Chattanooga's first independent auto-repair garage at 318 Market Street. Here in 1916, he invented the twin-boom wrecker. Holmes pioneered and patented numerous improvements in the towing and recovery industry. He expanded his company into an international enterprise. Manufacturer of the first military wrecker, during World War II he supplied thousand of twin-boom wreckers to the allied forces from 1941 through 1945.
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