458 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. September 8, 1916. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— page An Understanding between Capital and Labour ... 459 Coal Supplies and the Gas Companies ....... 459 Articles :— Coal and Shipping .......................... 449 Coal Mining in Japan ....................... 451 Portable Coke Loader ....................... 452 How to Oil Mine Cars........................ 455 Book Notices................................ 455 Mining Industry and Military Service ....... 456 Electric Equipment in Donetz Coal Mines..... 457 The Appointment of Colliery Deputies........ 460 The Structure of Coal .................... 464 Labour and Wages............................ 465 Obituary .................................. 465 Distillation of Non-coking Coals in France.. 465 Trade and the War .......................... 465 The American Coal Trade .................... 466 Miners and Old Age Pensions ................ 466 Open Contracts ............................. 468 Mining and Other Notes ..................... 468 The Freight Market ......................... 468 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted.................................. 470 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades.................................... 472 Publications Received ...................... 472 Government Publications .................... 472 . Current Science and Technology................. 456 Notes from the Coal Fields .................... 466 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies .......... 467 The Coal and Iron Trades....................460—464 The Tin-plate Trade ..................i..... 464 The By-Products Trade ...................... 464 The London Coal Trade ...................... 464 Reports of Meetings :— British Association for the Advancement of Science 453 Miscellanea :— Trade Openings Abroad—The Serbian Mines— Pumping Coal through a Tube —The Institute of Metals..................................... 452 Partnership Dissolved—Machine Tools as War Materials ................................. 455 Rouen Freightage Bureau .................... 456 Afforestation of Pit Banks.................. 463 Offer for North's Navigation Collieries—Miners and the War .............................. 464 Hull Coal Imports—Pulverised Ceal for Loco- motives—The Belgian Coal Industry.......... 465 Six Months'’ Donetz Coal Production........ 466 Cheaper Coal for Italy..................... 467 Immingham Coal Exports ..................... 468 Hull Coal Exports—Coaling in Argentine Poits— Coal in Federated Malay States ............ 472 ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Applications for particulars and terms of membership may be sent to the SKCRETABY. Clarence Chambers, Gloucester* The Oldest Diamond Drill Company. Established 1872. BORING foe MINERALS. SPEED AND CERTAINTY. CYLINDRICAL “ CORES.*’ THE AQUEOUS WORKS and DIAMOND ROCK-BORING Co. Ltd. Guildford St.( York Road, Lambeth, London, S.E. Besides numerous other Important Contracts, completed (in 1897) the Deepest Boring in the United Kingdom to 3,500 ft. Great Experience in Boring for WATER. The Cambrian School of Mines, CEMETERY ROAD, FORTH, GLAM. WILLIAM THOMAS, M.Inst M.E., F.G.S., M.R., Society of Arts. Tutors—Staff of Highly Qualified Instructors in all subjects. an University Training at Your Own Home. Instruction and Lessons by Post for Mine Managers, Surveyors, Electricians, and Mine Inspectors. Since the coming into force of the New Mines Act 525 Students of this School have been qualified as First and Second-class Mine Managers. 74 students have passed the Home Office Surveyors’ Exam.; 30 students are now Mines Inspectors. 3,251 students passed Fireman’s Exams. Candidates for the above write without delay for free Syllabus, and book of Previous Examination Questions. (Dept. C.) CAMBRIAN MINING SCHOOL, PORTH, Clam. Briquette Machinery Ltd., Charmouth Street, LEEDS. Machinery for Briquetting Peat, Lignite, Coke, Coal, Iron, Copper, Nickel, Cement; Also Sawdust, Waste Cereals, Offals, Sewage. PATENT COAL DRIER. The U.M.S. LESSONS BY POST. The best Mining Education. Unapproachable Successes. 5 2 H.M. Inspectors are U.M.S. Men. — Syllabus free. — THE UNIVERSAL MINING SCHOOL 50, Connaught Road, Cardiff. YEADONS’ LATEST PATENTED BRIQUETTE MACHINERY, For Coal, Coke, Iron and other Ores. YEADON, SON & CO., Engineers, LEEDS, Have a World-wide Reputation, and 38 Years’ Experience. They have supplied MORE BRIQUETTE PLANTS than any other firm in this country. RAILS. RAILS. ALL SECTIONS AND ACCESSORIES. Also quantity F.B. suitable for bearers. Sleepers. Timbers. Switches and Crossings. Buffer Stops. Locomotives. Cranes. Wagons. ARMYTAGE & JONETETSheaf Street, Sheffield. MARITIME COALING ADMINISTRATION Arrangements for Storage of Coal. Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, England* STEEL Rails Roof Rars Pit Props Arches For COLLIERIES and WORKS. THQ8 W. WARD Ltd., Albion Works, SHEFFIELD. TRY US, ------- To Colliery Owners requiring temporary REPRESENTATION FOR PERIOD OF THE WAR. Well known London firm will undertake duties for NOMINAL EX- PENSES ONLY.—Box 6372, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival- street, Holborn. London, E.C. training, with three copies of testimonials, to P.O., Box 6518, Colliery Guardian Office. 30 & 31, Furnival street, Holborn, London, E.C. Wanted, Good Experienced Under- V V MANAGER to increase the output at a Derbyshire pit drawing about 200 tons per day ; only energetic, capable men need apply ; coal cutting experience essential; first ctass certificate preferred.—State age, experience and salary required to Box 6516, Colliery Guardia v Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. Assistant Tutor Wanted in the Coal Mining Department of the Bennett College; eligible for military I service or conditionally exempt need not apply ; state full particulars and salary required.—GOVERNORS, Bennett College, Sheffield. | Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Cattle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. Auctioneers & Valuers to the Engineering Trades. KNIGHT & PARTNERS Ltd. 27, Old Queen Street, Westminster, S.W. CORRESPONDENCE INKITED. SALES conducted in all parts of the Kingdom. COAL, IRON & STEEL SHARES. WILLIAM CHAPMAN & COMPANY, Stockbrokers. (ESTABLISHED SINCE 1851). Cavendish Buildings, Wheeler Cate, NOTTINGHAM. Special Business in Coal, Iron and. Steel Shares. Lists, reports, &c., will be forwarded regularly on application. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN COALMINING AND SURVEYING, Specially prepared to qualify Students for the Examinations for CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY As Colliery Managers, Under-managers and Surveyors. Special Course for Colliery Firemen. Write for Booklet (Post Free) to the Secretary; Colliery Manager’s Aspirants’ Correspondence School LEIGH, LANCS. A/Techanical Engineer, experienced and 1 V A capable, required for Colliery; salary £250-£300, free house — Applv, 6519, Colliery Guardian Office. 30 & 31, Furnivai-street, Holborn, London, E.C. Head Chemist Required for Large Coking Installation in Northern England, with by-product recovery, tar distillation and gas plant: appl’cants most not be of military age or already on Government work.—Apply, Box 6523, CWlten Qua dian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival street, Holborn, London, E.C. VI/anted, a Reliable Colliery Manager V V to manage a small colliery in the Shropshire district; state age, experience, and salary required.—Apply, Box 6524, C lliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnivai-street, Holborn, London, E.C. KEIGHLEY CORPORATION. ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT. The Electricity Committee are open to receive prices for the supply of BEST SLACK and SMALL SLACK of good quality, free from dirt, the best slack to be about l^in., and the small slack from B in. to §in. The total Contract will be for about 12,000 tons, which will be split up between several Collieries, and prices are to be submitted based on a six- monthly or twelve-monthly period. It is proposed to try sample trucks of the Coal offered The latest date for receiving offers and prices will be Thursday, the 21st September. 1916. The new Contracts will start on the 1st October, 1916. Any further particulars may be obtained on written application to the undersigned. Power Station, HABRY WEBBER, A.M.I.E.E., Coney-lane, Keighley. Borough Electrical Engineer and September 5th, 1916. . Tramways Manager. YVTanted c. and w. price for 1,000 tons V V Merthyr Large, 500 Monmouthshire Large, 2,0"0 tons Staff., Derby or Nottingham Best Brights or Large Nuts; also 500 tc ns Forest Rubbles and Large, 1916 delivery. Cash against invoice.—DIRECT COALS LIMITED, Yeovil. Tel. add., “ Willie, Yeovil.” Tenders are invited for driving two Cruts or Cross-measure DRIFTS, each about 750 yards long. A section of the Strata to be passed through can be inspected at the Colliery Office. Specification will be forwarded on receipt cf 5s., which will be returned on receipt of Tender—Apply, MANAGER, Sneyd Collieries Limited, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. For Sale, Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engi- neers, bound vols. Nos. 11, 21 and 23; complete in parts, vols. 14, 16, 27, 30, 32, 34 and 35.—Particulars or OFFERS to Box 6517, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnivai- street, Holborn, London, E.C. Browett & Lindley 300 kw. Generating SET for Sale, cylinders 16£ in. and 31 in., stroke 17 in , dynamo compound wound 480 to 550 volts.—HELLEWELL it CO., Royal Exchange, Manchester. LOCOMOTIVES AND TRACTORS. Two 12 in. six coupled Hudswell Clarke Locos.,copper boxes, 140 lb. w.p.; £800 and £850 respectively. 12 in. six coupled Manning Wardle Loco , 140 lb. w.p., copper box, brass tubes, £650. 9 in. four coqpled Manning Wardle Loco., copper box, 120 lb. w.p.; £350. Two 8 in. four coupled Manning Wardle Locos., copper boxes, brass tubes, 120 lb. w.p.; low prices. 3 f t. gauge Loco., Hudswell Clarke, 4 coupled, 6 in. cylinders, new copper tu >es; £350; 150lb. pressure. 3 ft. gauge Hudswell Clarke Loco , 4 coupled, 9 in. cylinders, new copper box and tubes, 160 lb. w p.; £650. Two2ft.6in. gauge Kerr Stuart Locos., copper boxes, 1601b. w.p; £400 2 ft. gauge Bagnall Loco., 8 in. cylinders, 1401b. w.p.; £300. TRACTORS. 5-ton Steam Wallis and Steevens Tractor, 160 lb. w.p.; £30 5-ton Yorkshire Steam Wagon, 200 lb. w.p.; £225. 6-ton Allchin Steam Wagon, rubber tyres ; £350. 10-ton Fowler Ro