Abstract
In previous chapters we have seen how the Holt enterprise expanded after 1865 as new trades were steadily introduced, and we have seen, too, how critically important was the relationship built up between Blue Funnel and the various overseas agents. Beginning as a small-scale venture trading between Liverpool and China, the service widened at both ends, and by 1918 a world-wide network had come into being, served by a large modern fleet built to exacting standards.
The end was that the ‘Holt’ line soon became firmly established, and, in spite of occasional bad time, has greatly enriched everyone concerned in it.
(Japan Herald, 1880)
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J. K. Fairbank et al., East Asia: The Modern Transformation (London: Allen & Unwin, 1965) p. 340.
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Falkus, M. (1990). Eastward Ho! The Beginnings of Ocean Steam Ship. In: The Blue Funnel Legend. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11476-4_5
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