January 18, 1918.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

155

Hire
terms
fur-
nished
on
appli-
cation.

FOR
SALE
OR
HIRE.

NAYLOR’S APPROVED

BIFOLD MARSAUT LAMP.
Gives the best light, is the best
Ga« Detector, and the Safest
Flame Lamp procurable.



NEW MINES ACT.

Approved
Miners9 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. NATION,

Central Brass Works,

Established 1861. WIGAN.

DO YOU USE SILVESTER’S PROP WiTHDRAWER ?

If so, you cannot afford to be without

DAVIS’S PATENT ATTACHMENT,
which ensures absolute safety to the user, and allows
of obtaining fresh hold on rack, without releasing load.

WILL FIT ANY STANDARD SILVESTER.

Order at once from—

E. W. HODGSON & GO.,

24, Norfolk Row, SHEFFIELD.

Telegrams—“ Metalmen, Sheffield.”	Telephone No. 4246.





25 Years Experience With ALL
Sorts of Drives Leaves Heywood & Bridge s
Improved Patent Friction Clutches Unbeaten.

Write for catalogue “ Friction Clutches
and Driving Installations. ’ Post Free.

Applied to existing gear or specially designed
they have been so uniformly successful that
however difficult your haulage problem may be
we will give a written guarantee to satisfy you
absolutely.

AVID BRIDGE & CO., LTD,

Patentees and Sole Makers,

Castleton Iron Works,
Castleton, Manchester.

London: 35, Queen Victoria Street, E.C. 4.

WANTED.

O $ O IRON & STEEL, of every description,

a 0BO K COLLECTED WROT, & STEEL, separated or mixed,
J TURNINGS & BORINGS, heavy, medium & light,
BOILERS, for pressure, tanking or scrap.

Very highest prices free on rail any district.

hall.lewis & CO. -

’Phone—3245 (Private Branch Exchange). Telegrams—“ Halcyon, Cardiff.”

ALFRED ALLEN & SON

Makers olr	UnTlD.

COLLIERY AIR PIPES
■■	: J

and COLLIERY TUBS

In IRON, STEEL and WOOD.

Lower Gornal, nr. IDnctley.

Telegrams—“Allen, Lower Gornal.” Telephone—2106 Dudley.

Brand

Telephone oBS’- Tel. Address:
Bell: 828.	“Vinco, Glasgow.”

“Vinco”

Miners’ & Sinkers’

OILSKIN CLOTHING

A Special Feature. At Keenest Prices.

Everything in Oilskins for Town & Country Wear.

M. BAR^ C®. LcL

S3, Hutcheson St., GLASGOW.

Contractor's the	&.

NmnieroiiH Corporations.

THOMPSON & GO.,

—— WIGAN, -------------------------

Iron Merchants, Metal and Mineral Agents.

RAILS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, WITH FITTINGS COMPLETE,

FOR COLLIERIES, COJNTT JR ACTOR S, &c.

SOLE AGENTS SN THE DISTRICT FOR THE SALE OF

Wigan Coal & Iron So.’s Siemens Steel Billets, Blooms, Bars, Angles, Bails, Sc.

SPECIAUTY: STEEL FOR WAGON COUPLINGS.

K.H. BASSO PIG IRON. Also Spiegeleisen, Ferro-Manganese & Silico Spiegel.
NohePs (Gelignite, Polarite, Dynobel Nos. 3 & 4, Monobel No. 1, Viking Powder Nos. 1 & 2:
Explosives ■■

Go. Ltd. (. also Detonators, Electric Detonator Fuses, and all Blasting Appliances.

Maggie Brothers Ld. Wire & Hemp Ropes.

FOOLEY’S PATENT WEIGHING MACHINES.

Telegraphic Address—•“ SPIEGEL. WIGAN.”	Telephone—30 WIGAN

i V -A'p P- \

<.	"■ ' • < i1

Drop-Forged Shells. Drop-Forged Catches.

Drop-Forged Levers. Drop-Forged Couplings.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.

A and B Couplings and many others.

The 1912 lever has large lateral stops and a
wedge-shaped shouldered head.

The catch C is not essential.

SMALLMAN patent HAULAGE CLIPS.

British Patents No. 8476 of 1906; No. 19533 of 1910;
No. 9983 of 1911 ; and No. 4362 of 1912.

Automatic Detachment. 1912 Pattern ; nine sizes.



Patentee and Sole Manufacturer:—

JAMES W. SMALLMAN, Nuneaton, England.

-------SUTCLIFFE’S ----------------

COAL CUTTERS,

DISC & CHAIN TYPES, light or heavy pattern, for thin or thick
seams, with shallow or deep cuts. Compressed Air or Electrical Drive.

Coal-Face Conveyors, unrivalled in capacity, constant in work,
noiseless in the face and most easily moved forward.

Roadway Conveyors, which are moved freely from the face to admit
ripping in the gateway.

Hauling ©ear, to keep a constant supply of tubs between the engine plane
and coal face with instantaneous extension of endless rope.

Was*® Rolling, for conveyors of all kinds.

Thomson’s Non-Overwind, simplest, safest, surest, and cheapest.

Sutcliffe’s Universal! Sounding and displaying

Signalling Apparatus, fully complying with Regulation 95
of the Minks Act.

NOTE.—Th® above machinery is all patented or protected, and makers
or users of infringing- articles will be liable to be prosecuted.

FULL PARTICULARS FROM

RICHARD SUTCLIFFE,

Universal Worfrs, HORBURY, WAKEFIELD, England.



CEMENTATION ano
CHEMICAL TREATMENT

YEARS of STUBBY
and EXPERIENCE
HAVE BROUGHT
MY SYSTEM OF
CEMENTATION
TO PERFECTION.

TO COLLIERY PROPRIETORS.

Shafts sunk, tunnels driven, and
other mining constructions carried
out in difficult and very wet ground
by the best method. Success guar-
anteed.

18 shafts completed in England,
and 7 in progress.

Ferro-Concrete Lining a speciality.

Feeders of water in shafts or levels
effectually treated.

ALBERT FRANCOIS,

Telegrams— Francois, Doncaster,”

White House Chambers,
DONCASTER.

• ... . ■ . ■

Telephone—4 08 Doncaster.



Partners: Albert J. Francois (Belgian); Thomas Blandford.