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Post by John on Feb 5, 2005 12:19:35 GMT -5
I'll start with electrical manufacturers I recall.
AEI
British Thompson Huston.
Metropolitan Vickers.......Absorbed by GE.
Reyrolle.....Owned by Reyrolle Parson.
Winster.. I think they went under.
Davies of Derby.. Makers of the famous SIVAD face signalling equipment.. still in business.
Brush....Makers of switchgear and FLP transformers...Still in business.
Baldwin Francis....GEB manufacturers, still in business.
Wallacetown Engineering..(Wecol) GEB manufacturer, still in business owned by Allen West..
Morley....Motor manufacturer...Not sure if they are still around.
Horace Green...Motor manufacturer...Not sure if they are still around.
Victor.....Glands and plugs, still in business.
Mavor Coulson....GEB and switchgear manufacturer...Long gone.
Derby Automated Consultants (DAC) Face and main road signalling and communication manufacturers....Still around.
Oldham Cap lamp manufacturers...Still around.
Ce-ag....Cap lamp manufacturer...Long gone I think.
Belmos...Switchgear and U/G FLP lighting manufacturer...Still in business.
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Post by John on Feb 5, 2005 12:26:49 GMT -5
Mechanical equipment.
Anderson Boyes...Face equipment and road heading machines....Now owned by ADT a German company.
Mavor & Coulson....Gathering arm loaders and switchgear manufacturer....Owned by Anderson Strathclyde aka ADT Although I don't think the Mavor name exists anymore.
BJD (British Jeffrey Diamond) Face power loaders, owned by the Jeffrey Diamond company of the USA.
Meco-Moore..Face conveyors, stage loaders, conveyors, gear boxes, maker of the famous slicer loader....Owned by ADT, though I doubt the company still exists.
Vulcan Sinclair...Fluid couplings...I'm sure they are still around.
Crawley Engineering. Stage loaders and conveyors....Not sure if they are still around.
Butterley.....Bunkering systems...Not sure if they are around.
Sutcliffe....Bunkers and conveyors....Not sure.
Dowty Engineering....Hydraulic, powered and others face roof supports...Still around.
Gullick...Powered face roof supports...Still around.
Dobson...Powered roof supports.....Not sure if they are still around.
Wild...Powered face roof supports....I think they are long gone.
Huwood...Face machinery and conveyors...Still around.
Cable Belt...Rigid cable belt manufacturer..Still around.
Joy Manufacturing...Makers of continuous miners, shuttle cars, conveyors and longwall face packages including the face electrics.
Wagner....Makers of diesal and electric scooptrams.
Dosco...Makers of road heading machines....Still around.
Mono...Makers of pumps...Still in business.
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Post by dazb on Feb 5, 2005 14:16:56 GMT -5
Ceag still exists as a lamp (lighting component) manufacturing company but if I remember correctly the “flame safety” aspect lighting is now controlled by its German parent company and at the back of my tiny mind I seem to recollect that some mining equipment is manufactured in India. www.ceag.co.uk/Here we go just found this link; www.ceag.de/en/Explosion_Protection/Ceag_Group/History/ |
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Post by John on Feb 5, 2005 15:09:38 GMT -5
Been a while since I visited that site, thought they'd ceased making cap lamps. I knew up until 1979 they were still in that side of the business as Boulby Mine used Ceag's cap lamps.
The cap lamps the NCB used at Hucknall No1 pit for us trainees to use for underground training were the old Ceag nickel iron type, with stainless steel cap lamp, a lot heavier than the Oldham type G headpiece.
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Post by dazb on Feb 5, 2005 15:30:51 GMT -5
Anderson Boyes & Company Limited (Which started as a pedal cycle repair business) took over Mavor and Coulson Limited and became known as Anderson Mavor Limited (the Anderson Mavor title remained in use for their North American and South African “branches” for many years after the British group changed title to Anderson Strathclyde, Anderson Strathclyde Plc then Anderson Group Plc. Along the way Anderson accumulated quite a few other companies including the Mavor and Coulson Switchgear, M&C Conveyors, continuous miners, road headers, loaders and cutters; Austin Hoy and their subsidiary Hoy Carbides, Perard Torque Tension and last in my mind was the Caley Hydraulics Ltd……..(Caley being suppliers of equipment to the offshore oil industry, the envelopment of this company caused a serious outbreak of suicidal paranoia among the field service engineering staff when it was announced that Caley were also involved in the assembly and commission testing of mini- submarines ………..if you have ever noticed the oil and water leaks on the majority of shearers then you will understand their immediate concerns of being deployed 500 feet underwater inside anything related to Anderson Strathclyde’s manufacture.
Anderson Strathclyde Australia Pty Limited also encompassed a company by the name of AB Rea in Boolaroo near to Newcastle in NSW…..( I just love that place name sound,... Boolaroo, visions of Hoppitty Jobalongs, Red Gummy Trees and a Downside Uppermost World of Back Coming Curly Sticks).
Anderson Strathclyde had several collaboration arrangements with foreign companies, in India Jardine Henderson originally then later with a government “dis”-organisation MAMC. A Technology Transfer arrangement with the Republic Of China gave the Chinese licence/permission to manufacture several power loading machine arrangements, I noticed that on a tender to supply Longwall equipment to an Australian mine that the Chinese had submitted an AM 500 shearer arrangement of their own manufacture, I have no idea how they got on with that, but I can only presume by the fact that International niceties are still being exchanged between the two countries that the proposal was never accepted.
I believe that Anderson was taken over by Long Airdox and later was absorbed into the German DBT group………………….(glad it wasn’t the English Daz BT group).
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Post by dazb on Feb 5, 2005 16:19:19 GMT -5
I have just read my own message back and it seems that I might have come over a tad critical of good old Anderson, I never intended that and would consider that Anderson from its days as AB and world leaders in power loading pioneering enterprise has greatly enhanced not only the coal industry in general but in introducing major design changes has always considered their influence and effect on the miners who were involved with the machinery and its effect. (Their own Field Service Staff's comfort and integrity often having to be sacrificed in the process  ;D) Not really, throughout all the organisational changes and difficult times Anderson managed to retain some sense of family tradition amongst its treatment of all employees, a great company with a great tradition. |
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Post by inbye on Jul 10, 2008 13:39:55 GMT -5
Ceag still exists as a lamp (lighting component) manufacturing company but if I remember correctly the “flame safety” aspect lighting is now controlled by its German parent company and at the back of my tiny mind I seem to recollect that some mining equipment is manufactured in India. www.ceag.co.uk/Here we go just found this link; www.ceag.de/en/Explosion_Protection/Ceag_Group/History/Isn't that sad? I just followed dazb's link to CEAG's website. The "mining" section is totally empty, yet the company has made hundreds of thousands of pounds from the mining industry, in the UK. Just having a moan... Anyone visiting Barnsley market, will be a stones throw from the CEAG building. Take the time to look up to roof height, you will see a large concrete replica, of a CEAG lamp, on each corner of the building. Even some people living in Barnsley don't know that. I have a fairly rare CEAG lamp in my collection..........It's a combined flame & electric lamp. There's a small flame lamp mounted on top of an electric handlamp. When you need to make a test for firedamp, the lamp body is turned, this extinguishes the electric lamp and at the same time heats a platinum wire, which ignites the flame lamp........interesting thing... |
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Post by inbye on Jul 10, 2008 14:40:22 GMT -5
 this is the lamp I mentioned in the above post (hope it displays OK) |
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Post by John on Jul 10, 2008 15:54:25 GMT -5
Odd looking lamp, no doubt one of many wierd lamps.
My first caplamp when I did my underground training at Hucknall No1 training centre was a Ceag, with the Edison battery, old heavy stainless steel head piece and stainless steel battery.
The only lead acid Ceags I've worked with were at Boulby Potash Mine in North Yorks. The head piece was similar to the Oldham one with identical charging pins. In fact, myself and another electrician changed ours out for the Oldham head piece as the Oldham reflectors were better than Ceags.
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