March 1, 1918.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

[supplement PAGE IX.]

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THE BRITISH EXPLOSIVES SYNDICATE LTD. 124-ST VINCENT STREET GLASGOW

THAMES POWDER N° 2

Charge Limit 22 Ounces

NEEDS NO THAWING

HAULING ENGINES
(Own Manufacture).

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-Osriven Wmdisngj Sear

(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.

Emlyn and Central Engineering Works and Foundry,

NEWPORT, MON., England.

THE ORIGINAL FIRM—ESTABLISHED 1867.





Brand

Telephone	Address:

Bell: 829.	“Vinco, Glasgow.”

"'Vine o”

Miners’ & Sinkers’

OILSKIN CLOTHING

A Special Feature. At Keenest Prices.

Everything in Oilskins for Town & Country Wear.

M. BARR A Go, Ld.

83, Hutcheson St., GLASGOW.

Contractors to tine JPLclirrMix’a.lty &
Numerous Corporations,

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.

THOMPSON & GO.,

—-—-■ WIGAN, -----------------------

Iron Merchants^ Metal and Mineral Agents.

RAILS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, WITH FITTINGS COMPLETE,

FOR COLLIERIES, CONTE* AC TOR S, «&c.

SOLE AGENTS IN THE DISTRICT FOR THE SALE OF

Wigan Coal & Iron Co.’s Siemens Steel Billets, Blooms, Bars, Angles, Rails, &c.

SPECIALITY: STEEL FOR WAGON COUPLINGS.

K.H. BASIC PIG IRON. Also Spiegeleisen, Ferro-Manganese & Silico Spiegel.

Explosives Ge,'8nite’ Polarite> Dynobel Nos. 3 & 4, Monobel No. 1, Viking Powder Nos. 1 & 2;

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

Haggie Brothers Ld. Wire & Hemp Ropes.

POOLEY’S PATENT WEIGHING MACHINES.

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

BRAKE

CRESSWELLS’ lm

CLUTCH

WELLINGTON MILLS, BRADFORD

LININGS

Bothwell Street. GLASGOW

Grosvenor Road

Contractors to the Admiralty, the India Office and War Office, the
Crown Agents for the Colonies, and numerous British Railways, etc.

Sketty SWANSEA; 44=45, Exchange Bldgs., New St., BIRMINGHAM

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 100/6 pure asbestos reinforced by metallic strands
and containing tlO cotton or other fibre perishable by heat, woven solid in all thicknesses up to one inch, transmitting

a sure grip and engagement, soft as velvet and pliant as a hand grasp, it easily outlives many times all _

other brakinn media—whether of metal, wood or other combinations.

Telegrams: “ASBESTOS, BRADFORD.

Telephone : 950 BRADFORD.

Old-established Spinners and Manufacturers
and Patentees of Pure Asbestos Fabrics, etc.

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.	-

y/e invite your enquiries

Send postcard for our

Catalogue and

Drawings.