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Post by John on Feb 2, 2005 9:52:28 GMT -5
Only ever seen one in a Huwood notebook, anyone work with these?
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Post by Ragger on Feb 2, 2005 10:53:23 GMT -5
Never did John. Remember this  |
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Post by John on Feb 2, 2005 10:57:11 GMT -5
I have a couple of piccies of the Meco-Moore too Bill, I have read a lot about the machine, it's history etc. But the most vivid memory of it was from the NCB training film. I was told it was a fitters nightmare.Though pretty reliable in it's latter years of service........A shame not one survived the knackers yard!
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Post by Chippy35 on Apr 21, 2005 14:13:42 GMT -5
Remember one of these from my younger days in the Barnsley bed at Frickley Colliery South Yorkshire , in the early sixties, did not work on them myself but it was a machine designed to keep the fitters busy and the electrical chappies in the gate?  . lol. |
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Post by John on Apr 21, 2005 14:58:39 GMT -5
They had them at my old pit several years before I started. The pit was on the old Mech/Elec scheme so we the elecs would have worked on them. Notts coalfield had a desperate shortage of skilled fitters right into the early 1960's when the first of loads finished their apprenticeships.
I saw a PPM film of one, and I'd have hated working on them, just a few more parts than the conveyor mounted trepanner.
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Post by dazb on Apr 21, 2005 15:36:44 GMT -5
Remember one of these from my younger days in the Barnsley bed at Frickley Colliery South Yorkshire , in the early sixties, did not work on them myself but it was a machine designed to keep the fitters busy and the electrical chappies in the gate? . lol. Were they compressed air driven Chippy? |
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