46 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. January 4, 1918. The CONSUMMATE EVAPORATIVE CONDENSER for Steam Engines. Saving in coal effected—60 tons per week. CENTRAL CONDENSING PLANT dealing with the exhaust steam from Winding Engines, Fan Engine, 600 K.W. Power Plant, and Screen Engine. — Coal Consumption reduced 30 X - Water Consumption reduced 50 Z - Increased Power Output 30 Z Estimates and C.C. Booklet. EDW° DEANE A BEAL Ltd., Engineers, 676, Old Kent Rd., London, S.E. 15 FILES . MANOR WORKS U-J S HETFIELD Te/eynirrts STEADFAST SHEFFIELD 7e^r>Ao«eCEKTRAL3H2 D, Llevrellin Evans, PROPRIETOR OF THE Cardiff Brattice Cloth Company, —So*® <20- BUTE ST. CARDIFF. AGENT FOR Nobel’s Explosives, Price 3s. IQd. Post Free. A Practical Handbook for Colliery Electricians. ELECTRIC CIRCUIT PROBLEMS IN MINES AND FACTORIES. By ELLIS H. CRAPPER, B.Eng., Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. The Colliery Guardian Company Limited, 30&31, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C.4. HAULING ENGINES (Own Manufacture). THOMAS SUMMERSON & SONS LTD., ALBERT WORKS, DARLINGTON. Sidings Contracted for Complete. MANUFACTURERS of SWITCHES Chairs, Spikes, Fish Plates, Iron FISH PLATES and BOLTS for various sections and CROSSINGS, and Steel Castings. of Rail kept in Stock. - 4. MANY REPEAT ORDERS from different Collieries for this type of Engine. This Photo is taken from 8 in. x 12 in. stroke double cyls. “G” type, single drum, 2 ft. 6 in. dia. x 15 in. wide, flanges 9 in. deep. Double drum, each drum being 2 ft. 6 in. x 12 in. wide between flanges, flanges 9 in. deep with Helical Steel Gearing. Steel side frames. Friction-Driven Winding Gear (Own Manufacture). The motive power is taken through a friction coupling, and can be coupled either to Steam, Diesel, Oil, or Gas En- gine. The drums are also operated by heavy friction clutches put in and out of gear by quick screw and lever attach- ment. Photo is taken from 25— 30 b.h.p. Gear work- ing off a Diesel Engine and hauling at the rate of 8 ft. per second. Two drums each 2 ft. 6 in. dia. x 12 in. wide, 9 in. depth of flange, running on heavy gunmetal bushes. Powerful foot brakes. Built on w.i. girders 6 in. x 14 in. section, and braced together with cast iron distance pieces. CHARLES ». PHILLIPS, Emlyn and Central Engineering Works and Foundry, NEWPORT, MON., England. THE ORIGINAL FIRM—ESTABLISHED 1867. CRESSWELLS Ltd., Old-established Spinners and Manufacturers and Patentees of Pure Asbestos Fabrics, etc. WELLINGTON MILLS, BRADFORD. Bothwell Street. GLASGOW ; 9, Grosvenor Road, 44=4 5, Exchange Bldgs., New St., BIRMINGHAM. Contractors to the Admiralty, the India Office and War Office, the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and numerous British Railways, etc. IN its production, the essential features, not only of immediate and reliable check, but perfect resistance to the highest frictional heat, has been provided for. Manufactured only from guaranteed 100% pure asbestos reinforced by metallic strands and containing no cotton or other fibre perishable by heat, woven solid in all thicknesses up to one inch, transmittin< a sure grip and engagement, soft as velvet and pliant as a hand grasp, it easily Outlives many times all Other braking media—whether of metal, wood or other combinations. Used by hundreds of Collieries, Forges, Engineering Works, etc., for Winding Drums, Brake Posts, Drift or Transport Winches, and all Power Clutch and Brake Gears ; also for Trolleys, Cranes, Hauling Machinery, and Electro-mechanical Brakes fitted to Hoists, Centrifugal Machines, etc, above or below ground or water. We invite your enquiries Send postcard for our Catalogue and Drawings. I 1, Sketty, SWANSEA ; Telegrams: “ASBESTOS, BRADFORD.” Telephone : 950 BRADFORD. BRAKE AND CLUTCH LININGS