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Elected:       March 24, 1986 Inducted:    June 26, 1986 Born:            January 17, 1883 Married:      Hattie Holmes         Children:    Hattie Jane, Mildred, Cornelia, Ernest Jr.  History:      In 1916 he mounted the industry’s first wrecker on the body of a 1913 Cadillac.  He founded the Ernest Holmes Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Market Street and…

John Schrock is one of the experienced operators who received excellent training and then transmitted his talents to the emerging Ernest Holmes Company. He was instrumental in the RC 50 Railroad Crane Program. He also pioneered in changing marketing from factory to field installation, and in stocking distributors.

Oscar Weeks was graduated from Hillsborouglt High School in 1948 and served a three-year term with the US Marines. He took part in the Inchon Invasion in September 1950 and was wounded December 3, 1950. In the meantime his father had been pioneering as the first distributor for Ernest Holmes Company and the first ever…