Possibly of some interest....

[eddie]

My old man has this sticker on his toolbox.  He also has one in better knick on his 1980's calculator 
After finally getting around to taking a photo of it I thought I may as well find somewhere on the internet to share it.

Thanks.

[John]

Nov 27, 2014 5:24:50 GMT -5 eddie said:

My old man has this sticker on his toolbox.  He also has one in better knick on his 1980's calculator 
After finally getting around to taking a photo of it I thought I may as well find somewhere on the internet to share it.

Thanks.

Somewhere in a box are a load of stickers I got when I worked down under. I got a few off of the Anderson Strathclyde engineer, our company used to have one made every year that they gave us. Joy has them, you can actually email them and they will send you some, all reflective!!

[eddie]

So not rare then?
My hopes of cashing in are all but shattered!  :/

My dad used to work for Anderson Strathclyde as an engineer, he said the company had a few different names over the years
all containing "Anderson", if I remember correctly!?  I am not sure which incarnation of the company it was during his time.
He said he used to mainly work on quality management systems and left half way through the mining strike.....eventually ending up at Rover.

Also, the names Anderton and Anderson are complete coincidence?!  Confused me at first!  

[John]

Nov 28, 2014 12:52:38 GMT -5 eddie said:

So not rare then?
My hopes of cashing in are all but shattered!  :/

My dad used to work for Anderson Strathclyde as an engineer, he said the company had a few different names over the years
all containing "Anderson", if I remember correctly!?  I am not sure which incarnation of the company it was during his time.
He said he used to mainly work on quality management systems and left half way through the mining strike.....eventually ending up at Rover.

Also, the names Anderton and Anderson are complete coincidence?!  Confused me at first!  

Anderton is the name of the feller who "invented" the shearer, his full name was John Anderton. After the machine had been patented, the NCB licensed three companies to manufacture the machine, Anderson Boyes, BJD of Wakefield, (British Jeffrey Diamond) and the German company Eichoff.

Anderson Boyes changed their name in the 1960's to Anderson Strathclyde, they were sold out to an American company, then a German conglomerate, they sold out to another American company and are now owned lock stock and barrel by Caterpillar Corporation.

There's a couple of groups who sell, trade and swap mine stickers around the net, some fetch a lot of money, others nil used as swaps.
I've got Joy stickers I got from Joy reps, Anderson Strathclyde stickers from their rep, plus Heliminer etc.

Ask your Dad if he knows Daz Beatty, he's one of our members who used to work for Anderson's and Alex Downey, he's a Scotsman who used to service the NSW Australian set up. A true gentleman, I used to work at Angus Place Colliery in NSW and frequently came into contact with Alex when I was "dogwatch" longwall electrician and then as leading hand elec I'd accompany him to the longwall when he checked our machine out.
There's another member who used to work for the Australian side of Anderson Strathclyde, his name is John, don't know his last name.

[bulwellbrian]

It was James Anderton who invented the shearer, he worked for the North Western Division of the NCB. I have read that the first shearer was introduced in 1952 at Ravenhead colliery, St. Helens.

The NCB built a new HQ for the North Western Division at Lowton in 1965 and named it Anderton House. It has now been demolished and replaced by a housing estate.

There was a sculpture of the head and hands of a miner holding a lump of coal on top of a shearer drum outside Anderton House. I understand that the sculpture was transferred to Eastwood Hall, Nottinghamshire in 1998. I do not know if it is still there, Eastwood Hall is now a hotel & conference centre.

[John]

Nov 30, 2014 5:07:17 GMT -5 bulwellbrian said:

It was James Anderton who invented the shearer, he worked for the North Western Division of the NCB. I have read that the first shearer was introduced in 1952 at Ravenhead colliery, St. Helens.

The NCB built a new HQ for the North Western Division at Lowton in 1965 and named it Anderton House. It has now been demolished and replaced by a housing estate.

There was a sculpture of the head and hands of a miner holding a lump of coal on top of a shearer drum outside Anderton House. I understand that the sculpture was transferred to Eastwood Hall, Nottinghamshire in 1998. I do not know if it is still there, Eastwood Hall is now a hotel & conference centre.

You'll find a ton of information here on this site regarding the shearer and John Anderton, there's a book on Google books with a chapter on Johns contribution to the development of the shearer. It was hit and miss engineering carried out over the weekends and in collaboration with the fittings staff of his colliery and the blacksmiths and fitters at the area workshops. Here's a link to the thread on this site.

coalmine.proboards.com/thread/426/anderton-shearer-loader

[smshogun]

Brian:

Apparently this was one of many items removed from Eastwood Hall when it was sold, from what I understand they were offered to various mining museums in the area.

[John]

I think it ended up on a traffic roundabout in Lancs in the town where Mr Anderton lived and worked.

[Clive]

Dec 7, 2014 6:55:51 GMT -5 John said:

I think it ended up on a traffic roundabout in Lancs in the town where Mr Anderton lived and worked.

Anderton hose mwas lancs area headquaters John well western area. it was just off roundabout off east lamcs rd paqsed it every day going to old boston and visited it once to get some plans. On journey up east lancs rd we passed Astley Green. Then in distance we could see parsonage, then Bickershaw and finaly Golbourn. then the dreaded old boston, the only place that could make mining boring