1925-1930 UK Coal Industry Electrical & Other Companies

[rob52]

This will bring back a few memories...a list of some of the 1925-1930 UK Coal Industry Electrical & Other Companies from ads/articles in a couple of copies of the British Colliery Guardian Coal & Iron Trade Journal

Abot ?? & Bugery., SHeffield - Dog Spikes & Tram Nails
Alfred Allen & Sons - Colliery Tubes
Alley & McLellan - Air compressors 900 cu ft per min
W.G. Allen & Sons., Tipton. - Colliery Engineers established 1854 - Welded & riveted pipework, pit tub ironwork, Iron & steel pit tubs, pit cage, sinking bowls & tipping buckets.
Anderson Boyes - Coal-Cutters
Babcock & Wilcox Limited
Barclay & Co. Ltd., Kilmarnock - Electric Drives
Becco Engineering & Chemical Co. Ltd - lime-soda plant for treating water hardness
Belliss & Morcom - mixed-pressure turbines for electrical generation.
Belliss and B.T.H. steam-driven set
Birtley Iron Co. Ltd. & Jos. Cook, Sons & Co. Ltd - tubs with steel bodies built on oak frames, contain 12 cwt. of coal, the tare being 6½ cwt, 12-in, wheels, height of 3 ft.
Blantyre Engineering Company -
Blackett machine
Bothal pit winder - 20 in. by 4 ft. stroke cylinders
British Electric Plant Co. Ltd - electrically driven centrifugal feed water pumps
British Thomson-Houston - 220 volts, 75-kW motor generator for lighting
British Ropeway Engineering Co. Ltd
British Electric Transformer Company - 3000V/440 volts 500 kVA Transformers
Broadbent - Electric Storage Battery Locomotive
Broom & Wade - air compressor
Brown Boveri - Air compressors
Bruce Peebles - slip-ring motor developing 455 H.P
Callender's Cable & Construction Co. Ltd - Oil impregnated paper cables & junction boxes
Carl and Duke pit winders 25 in. diam. cylinder by 6 ft. stroke
Clarke, Chapman & Co Limited., Victoria Works, Gateshead - General Electrical Engineers & Specialists in all classes of Colliery Power Plants. Boilers
Cochrane - Boiler preheater and softener
Crosthwaite - Furnaces
Diamond - shaker conveyor
Earle's Cement
English Electric Co. Ltd. - Step down transformers 2800V/440V 625 kVA., 250 kVA., 150 kVA. and 100 kVA. 440/110V 20kVA Lighting Transformers
Ferodo lined post brakes - Asbestos brake linings
Ferranti Limited
Ferryhill Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd. -
Thos Firth - Turbine Castings
General Electric Co. Ltd - Electric Motors 2,200V 200HP 40Hz
Gillott Rotary Coal Cutter
Glover Bros
"Resisto" Non-Corrosive Steel Wire Ropes
Goodall, Clayton & Co. Ltd - Screening Plant Equipment
Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co. Ltd - five plies of canvas 36in wide conveyor belt, up to a length of 230 yards, using a 40-H.P. motor, 100 tons per hour, the speed being 200 ft. per minute.
"Hardiax" coal-cutting machine
Hadfields Pty Ltd
Hardy Patent Pick Co. Ltd
Head, Wrightson & Co. Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees. - Colliery Headgear
A. Hirst & Son Ltd., Dewsbury - "Crescent" Mining Specialities, Crescent Gate-End Switchgear, Crescent Coal-Cutters, Crescent Electric Drills
Hopkinson - chain cutter
Hugh Wood & Co. Ltd - Coal Screening Plant Equipment, spiral separator
International Channelling Company - electrically-driven reciprocating cutter, 4-H.P. 500 volt 3-phase 50-cycle squirrel cage motor
James W. Smallman - Haulage Clips
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. - Longwall Coal Cutter - Compressed Air or Electrically Driven
=>> 1926 over 10,000 Jeffrey Coal Cutters in use in various parts of the worked.
Jeffrey-Diamond sectional conveyor
John Cameron Limited, of Manchester - Feed water pumps, donkey pumps having 8½ in. by 5 in. diameter steam cylinders and 5 in. diameter rams, the stroke being 9 in.
Joseph Cook, Sons & Co. Ltd., of Washington, Co. Durham - Double-decked cages of punched-plate girder construction provided with tilting decks, arranged for simultaneous decking, drop cages being provided for the full tubs, while the empties are returned down ramps fitted with retarders.
King's Hook
H. J. H. King & Co. Ltd., of Nailsworth - Pulverised coal equipment
Lancashire Dynamo & Motor Company and combines a direct-driven exciter and a field regulating equipment. 2,400 r.p.m., 3-phase, 40-cycle at 2,750-3,000 volts
Mackley pump - six-stage pump capable of delivering 800 g.p.m. against a 1,000 ft. head ; it is driven by a 3000V 300-H.P. motor
Mather & Platt - six-stage pump driven by 440V 300-H.P. motor
Meco or Mayor & Coulson - Shakers conveyors
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd - Electrical power generating plant 1,500-kW. mixed pressure set turbo-alternators, 2,400 r.p.m. 3-phase 40-cycle, 550 volts. 220-B.H.P., 3,000-volt, 3-phase induction motor. 3,000 to 6,000-volt 500 kVA transformers
"Murton" Compressed-Air-Operated Coal-Cutting and Hewing Machine
Monarch - rotary electric drill for stone work, developing 3 H.P., the cutting speed being regulated by slipping the thread
Morton - Spray pond water coolers
Newall's Insulation Co. Ltd
Nota Nos Coal Washer
Norton-Harty Engineering Co. Ltd., Tipton - Colliery Headgear
The Patterson Engineering Co Ltd - Patterson Water Softeners
F. & A. Parkinson Limited, of Manchester - 90HP 3300V Electric Motors, fitted with ball bearings and a brush shifting device
Parsons - Electrical power generating plant high-pressure 1,000-kW. turbo-alternators, 2,400 r.p.m. 3-phase 40-cycle, 550 volts
Peckett & Sons Ltd., Bristol - Tank Locomotives
E.L. Price Ltd - Aerial Ropeways Telphers, Conveyors
Reyrolle & Co. Ltd - well-known mining draw-out type Switchgear, ironclad Switchgear main distribution and control boards
Robey & Co. Ltd. Power - winders steam-driven type B.T-H. mixed-pressure turbo-alternator. Overwind prevention gear
Robt. Daglish & Co Ltd - Winding Engines, Air-Compressors, Hauling Engines Automatic Cut-off & throw-out gears
The Power Plant Co Ltd., West Drayton, Middlesex - Gearing for Haulage & Pumping Machinery
Siemens-Schuckert - electric drills for shot-holes in the coal face
Silvertown Balata Belting
Sirocco - 3-ft. diameter Exhaust fans, Driven by a 5¼-H.P. motor having a variable speed from 200 to 320 r.p.m. 119in diameter 226r.p.m. 4000,000cu ft against 6in w.g. pressure driven by a 600HP Belliss engine having compounded cylinders, 23 and 33 in. in diameter by a 16 in. stroke.
Stirling - Water-tube boilers
STC for Tubes
Summerson Darlington
Terrazzo - Shower cubicle lining
Trefor Boring & Sinking Company of London
The Pearn Pump - eg Pearn three-throw ram pumps each capable of raising 300 g.p.m. against a 600 ft. head, the rams being 9 in. in diameter and having a 12-in, stroke. They have a speed of 46 r.p.m. and are driven by 80-H.P. 500-volt 3-phase induction motors through double reduction gearing.
The Hunslet Engine Co Ltd - Colliery Locomotives
T.G. Bell & Co Ltd
Tinsley 25 H.P. endless units. The Tinsley equipment can readily deal with 1,000 yards of normal roadway, which well exceeds the bounds of normal auxiliary work.
"Tugger" hoists - endless-rope type and have a speed of about 1½ mph
Underfeed Stoker Co. Ltd - pulverising equipment, combustion chamber equipment
United Water Softeners Limited - Lassen-Hjort plant.
Walker - reciprocating compressor
Wellington Tube Works - Loose Flange Tubes & Fittings
Wellman Bibby flexible coupling
Allen West - liquid type starter and reversing switch
Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd - electro-pneumatic type, decking plant, to reduce the time taken in changing the tubs. system of pneumatic control on the switches and the three tipplers enables one boy to deal with the whole output of the pit, amounting to 350 tubs an hour.
M. B. Wild & Co. Ltd - main and tail and haulage gear
W. H Willow & Co Ltd - Willows Libricating Oils, Lubrigear
Messrs. R. White & Sons, Widnes, Lancs., Ropeway designers and manufacturers
John Wood & Sons Ltd., of Wigan, - Winding Engine
Worsley Mesnes Ironworks Ltd., of Wigan, - Capstan Engines
William Boby & Co Ltd., Water Softeners - Boiler Feed
William Rigley - Rail Wagon Builders

Rob

[John]

Allen West are still in business, I believe they are owned by an American company who still trade under Allen West, they also bought out Wallace Town Engineering aka Wecol..

I think Mather & Platt still make electric motors too.
Brown Boveri are still in business, I think they make electric trains, alternators and electronic control equipment.

[rob52]

Allenwest
66 Third Avenue, Heatherhouse Industrial Estate
Irvine, KA12 8HN, United Kingdom

Looks like they are now owned by lortnocpmA, an Australian Company with tentacles.

Rob

[John]

Jun 16, 2014 7:27:45 GMT -5 rob52 said:

Allenwest
66 Third Avenue, Heatherhouse Industrial Estate
Irvine, KA12 8HN, United Kingdom

Looks like they are now owned by lortnocpmA, an Australian Company with tentacles.

Rob

It's hard to keep up with mining companies Rob, just take a look at Anderson Boyes record, OK, they just changed their corporate name to Anderson Strathclyde, but see how many times they have changed hands in the last 20 years.

I think Baldwin and Francis are now on the stock market from being a family owned company.

When Angus Place bought the new face equipment in the mid 1980's, they had GEB's made by an Australian company, CMA. As one of the electricians who worked on this equipment, it struck me how much they resembled B&F GEB's...I often wondered if B&F had bought into CMA??

[rob52]

G'day John,
Yes the suppliers come, go and get swallowed by others.........Cable Makers Australia (CMA) became MM Mining & MM Cables...MM Mining is no more also swallowed by lortnocpmA, an Australian Company with tentacles......MM Cables was swallowed up by Pirelli Cables then Prysmian Cables.

What was the LW Pwr Supply at Angus Place in mid 1980's?

From late 1980's/Early 1990's Appin had Electra 600 Shearer supplied by:
3 x 1.5MVA 6.6kV/3.3kV Txf Pantec MM Mining Package
6.6kV had MM LRO's
3.3kV End Txf Secondary Enclosures/GEBs had MM Mining PCM5 Power Chassis's…which looked for all the world like a reverse engineered B&F or Senior Davis Derby GEB Withdrawable…I recall looking at the glossy colour ads on the rear of Mining Technology Journals in the 1980's/1990's and having a wry smile at the distinct similarities of the photos to the equipment installed at Appin in the MM Mining Txf Secondary Enclosures….(was still in service in 1999ish).

Last 2 pages of cavinU Brochure appears to be the modern day equivalent.

…..I guess all that good work at Harpers Hill and NCB Development Labs did not go to waste, OEMs have been living off the good work for years..…its just that the knowledge capsule appears to have been thrown out and people are "making sausages" using the old designs without recognising that there have been major changes with the Mining Power Supply System…..eg three (3) fold increase in connected kW on LW Face 1996 AFC 2 x 266/522kW Pole Changing Motors becomes 2014 AFC of 3 x 1800kW….hence substantial increase in the MVA Txf Supplying the LW Face Equipment thus 3Ph F/L, Ph-Ph F/L & F/L X/R Ratio's......atleast we have finally obtained some air exclusion 800A 11kV Bolted Cable Couplers....yecam 11kV 800A BCC  kind of makes the early 1990's BICC 6.6kV & 3.3kV 300A units to BS3453 look small.


Rob

[John]

The first longwall Angus Place had used Wecol, (Wallacetown Engineering) 1.1Kv A67 GEB's, they used the Wecol Vacutac contactors.. The Vacutacs were a source of annoyance when I worked at Boulby, PITA to be honest, but problems were caused by the high temps we endured, and the large flat contactor coils couldn't dissipate the heat, so burned out.. They were no problem at Angus Place.

Power to the transformers was supplied at 11Kv, can't recall the make or size of them now, shearer was an Anderson Strathclyde "AM400"...Seems the Australian side seem to have designated the numbering based on horsepower, whereas the parent company designated them on mm height.
Hydraulic power packs for the face supports were Gullick Dobson. as were the roof supports.
Face communications and control was the Davis of Derby SIVAD system

Next face was using an Anderson Strathclyde "AM500"
All switchgear was CMA, again can't recall the size of the transformers, but 11Kv/1.1Kv and gas filled. Started with Freon and we changed to Nitrogen. Face communications/signals/lockouts was Dac 123.
Chock shields were Dowty.

From what I see now, they are using a full face package supplied by Joy Mining.


Do you recall the very first mechanized longwall face in Australia Rob?? Bellambi Coal Company installed an AB16/125 single ended shearer with modified Gullick Seaman five leg chocks in the early 1970's...No idea what GEB's they used or anything more, other than it was a total failure.

Down there as you are aware, they have massive sandstone roofs, the Gullicks were designed and built for UK conditions, so were doomed to failure. They had the same legs as used in UK mining conditions, if memory serves me right 50 ton legs, one of the fitters will correct that if I'm wrong. Anyway, because of thicker seams, the chocks had to be built up to fully extend to the thick seam to be mined...
I think someone mentioned to me years back, the whole face package is buried under the Illawarra sand stone!!

It was years before anyone dare install another face..But from what I was informed, the Electricity Commission who owned Angus Place decided to give it a go and tendered out for a longwall package to their specs..There is a long story relating to the shields.....

I'd arrived in Tasmania not long after that face was installed, and used to buy a mining newspaper, in it was news of Angus Place breaking records with their new longwall package..Easy to do as LW1 and later LW2 were just a short distance from the bottom of the drifts, mined parallel to the drifts between them and the old Kerosene Vale Colliery
By the time I worked for Angus Place they had half finished LW5 on the opposite side of the drifts further inbye.

[dazbt]

Jun 17, 2014 10:31:50 GMT -5 John said:

The first longwall Angus Place had used Wecol, (Wallacetown Engineering) 1.1Kv A67 GEB's, they used the Wecol Vacutac contactors.. The Vacutacs were a source of annoyance when I worked at Boulby, PITA to be honest, but problems were caused by the high temps we endured, and the large flat contactor coils couldn't dissipate the heat, so burned out.. They were no problem at Angus Place.

Power to the transformers was supplied at 11Kv, can't recall the make or size of them now, shearer was an Anderson Strathclyde "AM400"...Seems the Australian side seem to have designated the numbering based on horsepower, whereas the parent company designated them on mm height.
Hydraulic power packs for the face supports were Gullick Dobson. as were the roof supports.
Face communications and control was the Davis of Derby SIVAD system

Next face was using an Anderson Strathclyde "AM500"
All switchgear was CMA, again can't recall the size of the transformers, but 11Kv/1.1Kv and gas filled. Started with Freon and we changed to Nitrogen. Face communications/signals/lockouts was Dac 123.
Chock shields were Dowty.

From what I see now, they are using a full face package supplied by Joy Mining.


Do you recall the very first mechanized longwall face in Australia Rob?? Bellambi Coal Company installed an AB16/125 single ended shearer with modified Gullick Seaman five leg chocks in the early 1970's...No idea what GEB's they used or anything more, other than it was a total failure.



Down there as you are aware, they have massive sandstone roofs, the Gullicks were designed and built for UK conditions, so were doomed to failure. They had the same legs as used in UK mining conditions, if memory serves me right 50 ton legs, one of the fitters will correct that if I'm wrong. Anyway, because of thicker seams, the chocks had to be built up to fully extend to the thick seam to be mined...
I think someone mentioned to me years back, the whole face package is buried under the Illawarra sand stone!!

It was years before anyone dare install another face..But from what I was informed, the Electricity Commission who owned Angus Place decided to give it a go and tendered out for a longwall package to their specs..There is a long story relating to the shields.....

I'd arrived in Tasmania not long after that face was installed, and used to buy a mining newspaper, in it was news of Angus Place breaking records with their new longwall package..Easy to do as LW1 and later LW2 were just a short distance from the bottom of the drifts, mined parallel to the drifts between them and the old Kerosene Vale Colliery
By the time I worked for Angus Place they had half finished LW5 on the opposite side of the drifts further inbye.

What year was the first Longwall installed at Angus Place J?

[John]

Must have been 1979 Daz as I arrived in Tassie in August 79, so I'd have started buying the mining paper around September of that year... It could also have been a bit later, as I found a newsagent that sold the same mining paper.
LW1 and 2 were only short blocks of coal, LW3 was longer, 4 was longer still and 5 almost went to the boundary..

So by my reckoning somewhere between 1979 to 1981 it would have been installed Daz.

I'll make some inquiries, and see what transpires.

[John]

I sent an email off Daz, but in the meantime I did some searching, Angus Place commenced longwall production in 1979

[John]

Jun 17, 2014 13:36:42 GMT -5 John said:

I sent an email off Daz, but in the meantime I did some searching, Angus Place commenced longwall production in 1979

The friend I mailed started at Angus Place in 1980, LW2 was about half way retreated, so it looks like the paper I found was correct, it started longwalling in 1979.

I can verify the dates when Kerry has finished his overseas trip, he was the Elec Engineer in Charge at Angus Place.

[dazbt]

Jun 17, 2014 11:21:24 GMT -5 dazbt said:

Jun 17, 2014 10:31:50 GMT -5 John said:

The first longwall Angus Place had used Wecol, (Wallacetown Engineering) 1.1Kv A67 GEB's, they used the Wecol Vacutac contactors.. The Vacutacs were a source of annoyance when I worked at Boulby, PITA to be honest, but problems were caused by the high temps we endured, and the large flat contactor coils couldn't dissipate the heat, so burned out.. They were no problem at Angus Place.

Power to the transformers was supplied at 11Kv, can't recall the make or size of them now, shearer was an Anderson Strathclyde "AM400"...Seems the Australian side seem to have designated the numbering based on horsepower, whereas the parent company designated them on mm height.
Hydraulic power packs for the face supports were Gullick Dobson. as were the roof supports.
Face communications and control was the Davis of Derby SIVAD system

Next face was using an Anderson Strathclyde "AM500"
All switchgear was CMA, again can't recall the size of the transformers, but 11Kv/1.1Kv and gas filled. Started with Freon and we changed to Nitrogen. Face communications/signals/lockouts was Dac 123.
Chock shields were Dowty.

From what I see now, they are using a full face package supplied by Joy Mining.


Do you recall the very first mechanized longwall face in Australia Rob?? Bellambi Coal Company installed an AB16/125 single ended shearer with modified Gullick Seaman five leg chocks in the early 1970's...No idea what GEB's they used or anything more, other than it was a total failure.



Down there as you are aware, they have massive sandstone roofs, the Gullicks were designed and built for UK conditions, so were doomed to failure. They had the same legs as used in UK mining conditions, if memory serves me right 50 ton legs, one of the fitters will correct that if I'm wrong. Anyway, because of thicker seams, the chocks had to be built up to fully extend to the thick seam to be mined...
I think someone mentioned to me years back, the whole face package is buried under the Illawarra sand stone!!

It was years before anyone dare install another face..But from what I was informed, the Electricity Commission who owned Angus Place decided to give it a go and tendered out for a longwall package to their specs..There is a long story relating to the shields.....

I'd arrived in Tasmania not long after that face was installed, and used to buy a mining newspaper, in it was news of Angus Place breaking records with their new longwall package..Easy to do as LW1 and later LW2 were just a short distance from the bottom of the drifts, mined parallel to the drifts between them and the old Kerosene Vale Colliery
By the time I worked for Angus Place they had half finished LW5 on the opposite side of the drifts further inbye.

What year was the first Longwall installed at Angus Place J?

Sorted it J, just had a 90 minute phone call with the Anderson rep. that was present when the machine in question took its first operational cut. The first Anderson rep. that was present to "oversee" the machine being positioned on the face was actually taken ill and flown back to the UK. But the shearer's first commissioning cut was delayed owing to a late delivery of transformer, that delay was sufficient to ensure a second UK rep was able to travel in time to "oversee" the commissioning and first cut, no confusion now

[John]

I'm confused now Daz...LOL When did Alex Downey appear as field service engineer in Australia Daz??

[alectrician]

being from down south wales
i have to mention an omission
and that is south wales switchgear
i think they were based on treforest industrial estate

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[John]

I can't say I'm familiar for SWS, was it surface high voltage switchgear as used in the switch yards???

[rob52]

Post by alectrician:.."...south wales switchgear"

Post was headed.. 1925-1930 Companies.

South Wales Switchgear - (was founded 1941 / Establised as a subsidiary of Aberdare Cables Ltd; ]

Graces Guide - British Industrial History- the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain.
=>> Makes for an interesting read.

Posted by John yesterday at 4:08am
"I can't say I'm familiar for SWS, was it surface high voltage switchgear"
=>> Have worked on South Wales Switchgear 11kV Bulk Oil CBs C4 & D4X people retrofit them with vacuum CB's now  They also had 33kV E01 Bulk Oil Sw Gr


Rob.

[John]

Jul 29, 2014 6:06:58 GMT -5 rob52 said:

Post by alectrician:.."...south wales switchgear"

Post was headed.. 1925-1930 Companies.

South Wales Switchgear - (was founded 1941 / Establised as a subsidiary of Aberdare Cables Ltd; ]

Graces Guide - British Industrial History- the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain.
=>> Makes for an interesting read.

Posted by John yesterday at 4:08am
"I can't say I'm familiar for SWS, was it surface high voltage switchgear"
=>> Have worked on South Wales Switchgear 11kV Bulk Oil CBs C4 & D4X people retrofit them with vacuum CB's now  They also had 33kV E01 Bulk Oil Sw Gr


Rob.

Never came across them Rob, Clifton being an old pit had some rather old equipment in the underground and surface subs, mostly old Met Vick/AEI etc breakers. Cotgrave was mostly B&F on breakers and GEB's, no idea what was in the switchyards, never had the chance to work on the surface.

[smshogun]

They had horrible capacitor banks which were enclosed by brick walls and substantial steel doors, what they didn't have was a roof and they had a lot of feral cats breeding like rabbits, one of the worst jobs surface sparks had was to clean the capacitor banks of cats jumping onto them and exploding as the caps discharged through the cats.

[John]

Oct 29, 2014 21:07:03 GMT -5 smshogun said:

They had horrible capacitor banks which were enclosed by brick walls and substantial steel doors, what they didn't have was a roof and they had a lot of feral cats breeding like rabbits, one of the worst jobs surface sparks had was to clean the capacitor banks of cats jumping onto them and exploding as the caps discharged through the cats.

Something that happened a couple of weeks back with an electricity utility just south of us. They had a major power outage from 2-00am one morning lasting most of that day, caused by a Turkey Vulture, (Buzzard). Vultures like to roost in high places, very big birds with large wingspan, my guess, the vulture landed safely and got comfortable before it got dark. Must have woke up and stretched it's wings, shorted two high voltage phases out and blew up.... Must have damaged a fair amount to have cost the repair crew nearly a days work.
Power often momentarily trips and come back on around here, squirrels being the culprits, they climb a pole, and put a short to earth at the house transformers, 7.4Kv. Never seen them, but I'd bet they are flying squirrels for a short time.. LOL

[cromercolliery]

Don't know if south Wales switchgear are still in business, but the northern section of the east coast mainline railway a lot if not all of the feeder equipment was supplied by them . this was installed 1989_91

[ncbnik]

May 27, 2014 7:54:03 GMT -5 rob52 said:

This will bring back a few memories...a list of some of the 1925-1930 UK Coal Industry Electrical & Other Companies from ads/articles in a couple of copies of the British Colliery Guardian Coal & Iron Trade Journal

Abot ?? & Bugery., SHeffield - Dog Spikes & Tram Nails
Alfred Allen & Sons - Colliery Tubes
Alley & McLellan - Air compressors 900 cu ft per min
W.G. Allen & Sons., Tipton. - Colliery Engineers established 1854 - Welded & riveted pipework, pit tub ironwork, Iron & steel pit tubs, pit cage, sinking bowls & tipping buckets.
Anderson Boyes - Coal-Cutters
Babcock & Wilcox Limited
Barclay & Co. Ltd., Kilmarnock - Electric Drives
Becco Engineering & Chemical Co. Ltd - lime-soda plant for treating water hardness
Belliss & Morcom - mixed-pressure turbines for electrical generation.
Belliss and B.T.H. steam-driven set
Birtley Iron Co. Ltd. & Jos. Cook, Sons & Co. Ltd - tubs with steel bodies built on oak frames, contain 12 cwt. of coal, the tare being 6½ cwt, 12-in, wheels, height of 3 ft.
Blantyre Engineering Company -
Blackett machine
Bothal pit winder - 20 in. by 4 ft. stroke cylinders
British Electric Plant Co. Ltd - electrically driven centrifugal feed water pumps
British Thomson-Houston - 220 volts, 75-kW motor generator for lighting
British Ropeway Engineering Co. Ltd
British Electric Transformer Company - 3000V/440 volts 500 kVA Transformers
Broadbent - Electric Storage Battery Locomotive
Broom & Wade - air compressor
Brown Boveri - Air compressors
Bruce Peebles - slip-ring motor developing 455 H.P
Callender's Cable & Construction Co. Ltd - Oil impregnated paper cables & junction boxes
Carl and Duke pit winders 25 in. diam. cylinder by 6 ft. stroke
Clarke, Chapman & Co Limited., Victoria Works, Gateshead - General Electrical Engineers & Specialists in all classes of Colliery Power Plants. Boilers
Cochrane - Boiler preheater and softener
Crosthwaite - Furnaces
Diamond - shaker conveyor
Earle's Cement
English Electric Co. Ltd. - Step down transformers 2800V/440V 625 kVA., 250 kVA., 150 kVA. and 100 kVA. 440/110V 20kVA Lighting Transformers
Ferodo lined post brakes - Asbestos brake linings
Ferranti Limited
Ferryhill Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd. -
Thos Firth - Turbine Castings
General Electric Co. Ltd - Electric Motors 2,200V 200HP 40Hz
Gillott Rotary Coal Cutter
Glover Bros
"Resisto" Non-Corrosive Steel Wire Ropes
Goodall, Clayton & Co. Ltd - Screening Plant Equipment
Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co. Ltd - five plies of canvas 36in wide conveyor belt, up to a length of 230 yards, using a 40-H.P. motor, 100 tons per hour, the speed being 200 ft. per minute.
"Hardiax" coal-cutting machine
Hadfields Pty Ltd
Hardy Patent Pick Co. Ltd
Head, Wrightson & Co. Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees. - Colliery Headgear
A. Hirst & Son Ltd., Dewsbury - "Crescent" Mining Specialities, Crescent Gate-End Switchgear, Crescent Coal-Cutters, Crescent Electric Drills
Hopkinson - chain cutter
Hugh Wood & Co. Ltd - Coal Screening Plant Equipment, spiral separator
International Channelling Company - electrically-driven reciprocating cutter, 4-H.P. 500 volt 3-phase 50-cycle squirrel cage motor
James W. Smallman - Haulage Clips
Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. - Longwall Coal Cutter - Compressed Air or Electrically Driven
=>> 1926 over 10,000 Jeffrey Coal Cutters in use in various parts of the worked.
Jeffrey-Diamond sectional conveyor
John Cameron Limited, of Manchester - Feed water pumps, donkey pumps having 8½ in. by 5 in. diameter steam cylinders and 5 in. diameter rams, the stroke being 9 in.
Joseph Cook, Sons & Co. Ltd., of Washington, Co. Durham - Double-decked cages of punched-plate girder construction provided with tilting decks, arranged for simultaneous decking, drop cages being provided for the full tubs, while the empties are returned down ramps fitted with retarders.
King's Hook
H. J. H. King & Co. Ltd., of Nailsworth - Pulverised coal equipment
Lancashire Dynamo & Motor Company and combines a direct-driven exciter and a field regulating equipment. 2,400 r.p.m., 3-phase, 40-cycle at 2,750-3,000 volts
Mackley pump - six-stage pump capable of delivering 800 g.p.m. against a 1,000 ft. head ; it is driven by a 3000V 300-H.P. motor
Mather & Platt - six-stage pump driven by 440V 300-H.P. motor
Meco or Mayor & Coulson - Shakers conveyors
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd - Electrical power generating plant 1,500-kW. mixed pressure set turbo-alternators, 2,400 r.p.m. 3-phase 40-cycle, 550 volts. 220-B.H.P., 3,000-volt, 3-phase induction motor. 3,000 to 6,000-volt 500 kVA transformers
"Murton" Compressed-Air-Operated Coal-Cutting and Hewing Machine
Monarch - rotary electric drill for stone work, developing 3 H.P., the cutting speed being regulated by slipping the thread
Morton - Spray pond water coolers
Newall's Insulation Co. Ltd
Nota Nos Coal Washer
Norton-Harty Engineering Co. Ltd., Tipton - Colliery Headgear
The Patterson Engineering Co Ltd - Patterson Water Softeners
F. & A. Parkinson Limited, of Manchester - 90HP 3300V Electric Motors, fitted with ball bearings and a brush shifting device
Parsons - Electrical power generating plant high-pressure 1,000-kW. turbo-alternators, 2,400 r.p.m. 3-phase 40-cycle, 550 volts
Peckett & Sons Ltd., Bristol - Tank Locomotives
E.L. Price Ltd - Aerial Ropeways Telphers, Conveyors
Reyrolle & Co. Ltd - well-known mining draw-out type Switchgear, ironclad Switchgear main distribution and control boards
Robey & Co. Ltd. Power - winders steam-driven type B.T-H. mixed-pressure turbo-alternator. Overwind prevention gear
Robt. Daglish & Co Ltd - Winding Engines, Air-Compressors, Hauling Engines Automatic Cut-off & throw-out gears
The Power Plant Co Ltd., West Drayton, Middlesex - Gearing for Haulage & Pumping Machinery
Siemens-Schuckert - electric drills for shot-holes in the coal face
Silvertown Balata Belting
Sirocco - 3-ft. diameter Exhaust fans, Driven by a 5¼-H.P. motor having a variable speed from 200 to 320 r.p.m. 119in diameter 226r.p.m. 4000,000cu ft against 6in w.g. pressure driven by a 600HP Belliss engine having compounded cylinders, 23 and 33 in. in diameter by a 16 in. stroke.
Stirling - Water-tube boilers
STC for Tubes
Summerson Darlington
Terrazzo - Shower cubicle lining
Trefor Boring & Sinking Company of London
The Pearn Pump - eg Pearn three-throw ram pumps each capable of raising 300 g.p.m. against a 600 ft. head, the rams being 9 in. in diameter and having a 12-in, stroke. They have a speed of 46 r.p.m. and are driven by 80-H.P. 500-volt 3-phase induction motors through double reduction gearing.
The Hunslet Engine Co Ltd - Colliery Locomotives
T.G. Bell & Co Ltd
Tinsley 25 H.P. endless units. The Tinsley equipment can readily deal with 1,000 yards of normal roadway, which well exceeds the bounds of normal auxiliary work.
"Tugger" hoists - endless-rope type and have a speed of about 1½ mph
Underfeed Stoker Co. Ltd - pulverising equipment, combustion chamber equipment
United Water Softeners Limited - Lassen-Hjort plant.
Walker - reciprocating compressor
Wellington Tube Works - Loose Flange Tubes & Fittings
Wellman Bibby flexible coupling
Allen West - liquid type starter and reversing switch
Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd - electro-pneumatic type, decking plant, to reduce the time taken in changing the tubs. system of pneumatic control on the switches and the three tipplers enables one boy to deal with the whole output of the pit, amounting to 350 tubs an hour.
M. B. Wild & Co. Ltd - main and tail and haulage gear
W. H Willow & Co Ltd - Willows Libricating Oils, Lubrigear
Messrs. R. White & Sons, Widnes, Lancs., Ropeway designers and manufacturers
John Wood & Sons Ltd., of Wigan, - Winding Engine
Worsley Mesnes Ironworks Ltd., of Wigan, - Capstan Engines
William Boby & Co Ltd., Water Softeners - Boiler Feed
William Rigley - Rail Wagon Builders

Rob

Some more which, I think from memory were operating at that time

Daniel Adamson - Turbines, alternator & compressor
E. (Neddy) Green - the 'Economiser'
Hick-Hargreaves - de airators and boiler ancilliaries
Richardsons Westgarth - Turbo Alternators
Laurence Scott Electromotors - Enclosed FLP motors etc

Nick

[rob52]

gracesguide.co.uk agrees ncbnik


Daniel Adamson and Co of Dukinfield, near Manchester, specialising in engine and boiler making
1914 Private company.
1951 Company made public.

E. Green and Son
Edward Green and Son of Wakefield and Manchester
Green’s Economiser
www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im18950726PE-Green.jpg

www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1899MWYB-Green.jpg

Hick, Hargreaves and Co…of the Soho Foundry, Bolton.
c1925 Supplied an engine to Abercarn Works.

Richardsons, Westgarth and Co
March of 1925 Middlesborough works closed down Hartlepool works survived

Laurence, Scott and Electromotors
1929 Company formed when Laurence, Scott and Co took over Electromotors

Liked
The 1922 Who's Who Guide

Rob

[colly0410]

When I read the first entry "Abbott & Bugery" I burst out laughing at "Bugery". I'm afraid I've got a warped & corrupted brain, I always laugh at things I shouldn't.

[ncbnik]

Jun 1, 2016 5:43:36 GMT -5 rob52 said:

gracesguide.co.uk agrees ncbnik


Daniel Adamson and Co of Dukinfield, near Manchester, specialising in engine and boiler making
1914 Private company.
1951 Company made public.

E. Green and Son
Edward Green and Son of Wakefield and Manchester
Green’s Economiser
www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im18950726PE-Green.jpg

www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1899MWYB-Green.jpg

Hick, Hargreaves and Co…of the Soho Foundry, Bolton.
c1925 Supplied an engine to Abercarn Works.

Richardsons, Westgarth and Co
March of 1925 Middlesborough works closed down Hartlepool works survived

Laurence, Scott and Electromotors
1929 Company formed when Laurence, Scott and Co took over Electromotors

Liked
The 1922 Who's Who Guide

Rob

I've thought of another; Hodgkinson's of Salford - mechanical boiler stokers  etc.

As to the first list, Lancashire Dynamo & Crypto (LDC) was how I always knew them although earlier they may have been Lancashire Dynamo & Motor.

[tonys]

South Wales Switchgear were absorbed by Hawker Siddeley under the Brush Switchgear umbrella.

The SWS LV switches were very similar to Wallacetown using a centre pivot for the switch blades to rotate around. For ACB’s SWS used Whipp and Bourn units.

Wallacetown are now part of Allen West.

Allen West are very helpful if you ask for historical information. Unfortunately their archive burnt down but when I asked about crane control they e-mailed every bit of information they had left.

[John]

Jun 8, 2016 6:22:17 GMT -5 tonys said:

South Wales Switchgear were absorbed by Hawker Siddeley under the Brush Switchgear umbrella.

The SWS LV switches were very similar to Wallacetown using a centre pivot for the switch blades to rotate around. For ACB’s SWS used Whipp and Bourn units.

Wallacetown are now part of Allen West.

Allen West are very helpful if you ask for historical information. Unfortunately their archive burnt down but when I asked about crane control they e-mailed every bit of information they had left.

Allen West now called Ampcontrol.