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THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN,

May 15, 1914.

COHTENTS.

Editorial Articles :—	page

What is a Mine ?............................ 1075

Metallurgical Fuel.......................... 1075

Articles :—

Two Modern West Yorkshire Collieries ........ 1063

The Transmission of Power by Ropes ......... 1065

New Oscillating Cylinder Hauling Engine .... 1067

The Determination of Carbon Monoxide in Air... 1068

A New Mining Transit Theodolite ............ 1068

Approved Safety Lamps .....................  1069

Labour and Wages............................ 1076

Coastwise Shipments During March ........... 1077

The Rhenish-Westphalian Syndicate and the

Kohlenkontor ............................. 1080

Mining and Other Notes ..................... 1084

The Freight Market ......................... 1084

Exports of Coal, Coke, and Manufactured Fuel

from the United Kingdom .................. 1085

Open Contracts.............................. 1086

Coal and Coke Exported from Ports in England,

Scotland and Wales ....................... 1086

Coal and Coke Shipped for London and Other Ports
in the United Kingdom....................   1086

Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted 1088
New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron

Trades ................................... 1090

Government Publications ...................  1090

Publications Received ....................   1090

Continental Mining Notes ....................   1073

Notes from the Coalfields ..................... 1081

Law Intelligence .............................. 1084

Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies .......... 1087

The Coal and Iron Trades ........ 1071—1073,	1077, 1078

The By-Products Trade ...................... 1078

The London Coal Trade ...................... 1078

The Tin-plate Trade ........................ 1078

Reports of Meetings:—

North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and
. Mechanical Engineers ..................... 1064

Iron and Steel Institute ................... 1079

Letters to the Editor:—

The Schoeller Miners’ Lamp Gas Detector—The
Senghenydd Explosion—Ignition of Explosive
Mixtures by Electric Sparks—The Hailwood
Combustion Tube Oil Lamp ................... 1070

Miscellanea -

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy ....... 1078

Partnerships Dissolved — Shipping, Engineering

and Machinery Exhibition, Olympia, 1914 .. 1083

Shipments of Bunker Coals — Grimsby Coal
, Exports .................................. 1084

Hull Coal Exports—Immingham Coai Exports..... 1085

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HOUSE AND STEAM COAL WANTED.

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14th May, 1914.	Clerk to the Guardians.

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