May 25, 1917.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

979

AERIAL

ROPEWAYS

ANY SYSTEM.

FOR
SALE
OR
HIRE.

NAYLOR’S APPROVED
BIFOLD MARSAUT LAMP.
Gives the best light, is the best
Gas Detector, and the Safest
Flame Lamp procurable.

BLAKEBOROUGH & SONS,
BRIGHOUSE.

We are

Makers of

A	For all duties.

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the desired lightness, but is far more attractive in appearance.

Hy-Rib is a Ribbed Steel Lath which needs supports at 10 ft. centres only, and
readily takes 2 in. of cement plaster. Its use ensures the most rapid permanent con-
struction possible, the building costs little or nothing for maintenance and is superior in
every way to the usual type of building.

Illustration shows the Sharlston Colliery Co.’s Pit Head Buildings,
erected on this principle.

Send for Handbook and learn of it» utility.

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Our fully illustrated and descriptive literature
free for the asking.

LITTLE HULTON, BOLTON ;

AND

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VERY early in the history of man^i
came the necessity of moving
things from one place to another. '
To-day the most successful boiler’
houses—those with the highest effi-
ciency and lowest working cost—are*
using “ Bennis ” Automatic Coal and ;
Ash Handling Plant combined with:
“ Bennis ” Stokers. Complete schemes’
prepared free to any requirement, and
behind every one is the successful
record of three quarters of a century’s
experience.

I	G Co.,Ltd>-^



Hire
terms
fur-
nished
on
appli-
cation.

NEW MINES ACT.

Approved
Miners’ Lamps

TO MEET ALL
REQUIREMENTS OF
THE ACT.

Arranged for Electric
Ignition and with Mag-
netic Lock. Particulars
furnished on application.
Demonstrations arranged
by appointment.

«/. H. NAYLOR,

Central Brass Works,

Established 1861. WIGAN.



The British Ropeway Engineering Co. ltd.,
7, MINCING LANE, LONDON, E.C. 3.

Tele—CENTRAL 1 1250.







It s all in the rigid Rib.



Colliery Buildings

No more unsightly buildings

The nature of the ground in colliery districts necessitates a light

type of building.

weight

account of ground trouble many unsightly structures of timber and corrugated iron have been erected.
There is no longer any need for this. A building erected with Hy-Rib and structural steel not only
gives

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