Mick
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Post by Mick on Feb 26, 2010 15:29:52 GMT -5
Hi Whedale,yes your right there 43s tail gate was the main loco road 44s 46s came off that tail gate. Wat was the name of your uncle and dad im bad with names . Mick.
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Post by Wheldale on Feb 26, 2010 15:46:53 GMT -5
Hi Mick,
My dad is Ernest Franks, he worked at Wheldale as Personnel manager from 76 till 88.
My uncle is Len Franks. He came to Wheldae in 86 from Fryston. He was the undermanager then was manager in charge of salvage during the closure in 88.
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Post by Mick on Feb 26, 2010 15:59:57 GMT -5
That right your dad came from BIG K he was the first personnel Manager Wheldale had a very fair bloke. Your uncle was a good undermanager,but i did'nt have much to do with him as i was off work for the last 6 month of the pits life. Mick.
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Post by Wheldale on Feb 26, 2010 16:16:45 GMT -5
Thanks Mick. Yeah my dad came from the Big K. Both my dad and uncle started at the bottom of the ladder at New Monckton 3 and 4 and went to school and got their managers tickets.
Did you know BOb kidd? He was a deputy at Wheldale till 83 then went to Wistow. Unfortunately he passed away in December.
I remember we once went on a cruise in the med and there was a bus load from Cas, load of old Wheldale miners were on it!
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Post by Mick on Feb 26, 2010 16:31:25 GMT -5
The name rings a bell,but if i remmber right they were afew Kidd's at pit. I remmber your dad running the London Marathon,did'nt he have a problem with his heart but he still ran it or am i thinking of someone else?. Mick.
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Post by Wheldale on Feb 27, 2010 4:12:36 GMT -5
My dad had a heart attack at Kellingley (apparently one of the first things he said when he came round at the hospital was "is the coal still coming out of the pit?" Docs reply was it will still be when he's dead!) Thats when a job came available at Wheldae so he moved there. I remember him running the marathon, (81 or 82). I was 4 at the time. Think he did it in 3 hours and 45 minutes. I remember taking his medal to school to show all the kids!
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Post by gordonallan on Dec 4, 2010 10:14:56 GMT -5
For those young miners looking for some information in which the older mining generation managed to produce coal at a profit.
I have some photos and some technical information of the following coal cutting machines produced by Anderson and Boyes, Motherwell, Scotland.
AB 12, Undercutter, compressed air and electric driven AB 15, Undercutter, compressed air and electric driven AB 15, Overcutter, compressed air and electric driven AB 16, Waffler, electric driven. AB 16, Undercutter, electric driven AB Shortwall Cutter, RD and Low Seam type, compressed air and electric driven AB Dreadnought Arc-shearer, compressed air and electric driven AB 15 arc-shearer, coal-cutter,70 HP, electric driven AB 15, Low type arc-shearer, coal-cutter,70 HP, electric driven AB 15 Shaker Conveyor & gate End Loaders. Meco-Moore Anderson Longwall coal cutter loader AB Heavy Duty Comminuting Machine AB 16 Shearers AB 12 Thin Seam Sheares Samson Stripper, Active plough
Various information on cutter jibs,chains, AB FLP gate end Circuit Breakers(Types C.H.4 & C.A. 4)
Plus Joy 10 RU, 15 RU - 5 and - 6
Anybody wanting information on the above please contact me?
I also can supply information as to the location where some of the AB machines have been used in UK and else where.
I was employed as an app. mining surveyor in the Central West Area in Scotland before Lord Robens decided to close 70% of the Central West Collieries.
I was fortune to be in the Mining Industry during the introduction of first generation of mechanization, witnessing AB 16 Shearers, coal ploughs and the like.
Please fill free to contact me regarding first stage mechanization or anything else regarding coal extraction.
Currently, based in Sarawak, east Malaysia.
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