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Ferocious German bombing of the United Kingdom took place by day in 1940 but increasingly by night from October of that year. London took a great deal of the bombing but port cities such as Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Southampton, Belfast, and Glasgow were also attacked. One objective of German raids was to try to negatively…

It was as a parcels delivery service using pony and cart that Robert Holt began his business in 1902 before joining up with his brother two years later to operate a general carriers company, but it wasn’t long before the pony was replaced by steam and motor lorries. On slack weekends the lorries would be…