1034 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN November 19, 1915. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— page Coal Exports, at Home and Abroad ............ 1035 Coal and Posterity........................... 1035 Articles:— The Fauna and Stratigraphy of the Kent Coal Field....................................... 1025 Fuel Economy................................. 1027 Large Locomotives for the South African Coal Traffic .................................... 1029 Problems of the South Lancashire Coal Field . 1029 The German and Austrian Coal and Iron Trades ... 1032 Trade and the War............................ 1033 American Coal Dust Experiments .............. 1041 Labour and Wages............................. 1042 Obituary..................................... 1043 The Freight Market .......................... 1046 Open Contracts .............................. 1046 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted..................................* 1047 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades...................................... 1048 Government Publications ..................... 1050 Publications Received ....................... 1050 Current Science and Technology................... 1032 Parliamentary Intelligence ...................... 1031 Notes from the Coal Fields ...................... 1043 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies ............ 1047 The Coal and Iron Trades ................... 1036—1040 The Tin-plate Trade ......................... 1033 The By-Products Trade ....................... 1040 The London Coal Trade ....................... 1040 Reports of Meetings :— The Institution of Electrical Engineers ..... 1028 Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers .................................. 1030 Letters to the Editors :— Mechanical Ventilation Underground .......... 1046 Miscellanea :— Hull Coal Exports—Partnerships Dissolved .... 1026 Consulting Engineers and Alleged Wrongful Dis- missal .................................... 1031 Miners and Enlistment ....................... 1036 The Engineering Institutions5 Volunteer Engineer Corps—Coal Shipped from Ports in the United Kingdom during October...................... 1040 Emigrated Miners to Return................... 1043 Coal Contracts and the War .................. 1047 ADVERTISEMENTS. Offices for ADVERTISEMENTS and PUBLICATION- 30 & 31 ji Furnivai Street, Holborn, London, E.C. Telegraphic Address—“Colliery Guardian, Fleet, London.” Telephone—1354 Holborn. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS : Advertisements are inserted on the last white page or leader page at the following rates :— One insertion ... 10s. 6d. per inch per insertion. Three insertions 9s. 6d. ,, ,, Six insertions ... 9s. Od. ,, ,, A reduction of 25 per cent, is allowed on advertisements of second-hand machinery. Situations Vacant and Wanted : One Penny per word, minimum 2s. 6d. (which must be prepaid). Can be received up to TEN o’clock on Friday morning. (A Classified List appears on page 1052). Established 1866. PATENTS, DESIGNS, and TRADE MARKS. JTARRIS AND MILLS, Chartered Patent Agents, 34 and 35, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. Telegraphic Address—” Privilege, London.” Tel. No.—Holborn 2763. D. Liewellin Evans PROPRIETOR OF THE Cardiff Brattice Cloth Company, 120, BUTE ST. CARDIFF. AGENT FOR Nobel's Explosives. Telephone—3130 Central; 547 Broomhill. COATES & CO., Si,SHEFnELD^ Electrical Engineers and Power Contractors. Experts in Dynamo and Motor Repairs. COLLIERY REPAIRS A SPECIALITY. St »ff avai able day nr night. Promptness and reliability assured. Patentees of New System of Underground Wiring;, Strongrer, Simpler and Easier nf Erection than any other. be shall be pleased to advise you. Write for particulars of our Patent Boxes. Driving Chains & Wheels Conveyors, Elevators, Screening Plant, Tipplers, &c., &c. ON WAR OFFICE AND ADMIRALTY LISTS. HANS RENOLD LTD,, Didsbury, MANCHESTER, ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE OWNERS OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK. Formedin 1891 for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Private Owners. Applications for particulars and terms of membership may be sent to the SECRETARY, Clarence Chambers, Gloucester. The Oldest Diamond Drill Company. Established 1872. BORING fob Jfl-INERALS. SPEED AND CERTAINTY. CYLINDRICAL “ CORES.” THE AQUEOUS WORKS AND SUAMOND RC50K BORIKO Gii iTt. Guildford St., York Road, Umreth, Lc^do.'l 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 BOAD, PORTH, GLAM. pTi/itcipcbl ■ WILLIAM THOMAS, M.Inst M.K., 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 487 Students of this School have been qualified as First and Second-class Mine Managers. 58 students have passed the Home Office Surveyors’ Exam.; 30 students are now Mines Inspectors. Candidate* for the aoove 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. STEEL Rails Roof Rars Pit Props Arches For COLLIERIES V V and WORKS. THOS W. WARD Ltd., Albion Works, SHEFFIELD. TRY US- ------- Four thousand Tub Pedestals Lubricated Efficiently for 15 Pounds per Annum. Particulars— Yfte Lancashire Engineering Agency, 429, Corn Exchange Buildings, MANCHESTER. VALanted, Assistant Surveyor for South ▼ V Yorkshire colliery; no one eligible for military service need apply —Apply, stating age, experience, and sa’ary required, to Box 6227, Co Herv Swdiw Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London. E.C. \ A^anted, First-class Certificated Colliery V V MANAGER, and a second-class Certificated UNDER MANAGER for a Lancashire colliery.—Apply, stating age, salary, experience, &c., Box 6230, CAliery Gw* an Office, 30& 31. F irnival-st., Holborn, London. E.C iARTNERSHIPS or DIRECTORSHIPS REQUIRED by the following investors, viz.: Capital | av Ml able. Experience. Business Required. £5,000 £5,000 £5,000 £3,000 £3,000 £3,000 £2,500 £1,500 £1,000 £1,000 Owne should < Merchants ... Motors Brewery Chemicals ... Textile Commercial... Manufacturing Soft Goods ... Ironmongery Accountancy rs of established jail upon or com: Directorship in sound Manufg. Co. Engineering or Manufacturing. Coal. Chemicals or Allied. Manchester Heavy Goods preferred. Directorship, Devon preferred. Manufg. has export connections. Coal. Wholesale Hardware. Manufg., Wholesale, or Agency. 1 sound businesses requiring capital municate confidentially with Messrs. I Tonnage on the Tyne and Wear has again slightly COOKE & BYRNE, 60, Harcourt St., Dublin. I improved, and the prompt markets in both cases Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Caatle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. "Dequired, First-class Engineer for West 1 Yorkshire colliery; must be six o’clock man with good practical experience in all colliery equipment, and w th sound training ; energe ic organiser; salary £3 >0s. per week; free house and coal.—Apply, with refer- ences, to Box 6229, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn. London, E.C. Position wanted at Home or Abroad, experienced mechanical construction, screens, coal washing machinery, engines, boilers, estimates, and supervision all kinds of bindings; small salary until value or services is demonstrated—Box 6212, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-st., Holborn, London, E.C. ALDERSHOT URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. ELECTRICITY DEPARTMSNT. rPlie above Council invite Tenders for a JL twelve months’ supply of 1,500 tons of PEA COAL for use on mechanical stokers. Particulars of tender and tender forms may be obtained on application to the Electrical Engineer to the Council, Electricity Works, Laburnum-road. Aidershot. Tenders to be marked “ Coal,” are to be sent to the Clerk to the Council, Municipal Buildings, Grosvenor-r ad, Aidershot, to be in his hands not later than Tuesday morning, the 30th Novemter next. By order. F. H. DOMINEY, Acting Clerk. CONTRACTS FOR COLLIERY STORES AND TIMBER. Pie South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd. invite TENDERS for six months’ supply ending June 30th, 1916, of TIMBER (English only), OILS, IRON, CASTINGS, WIRE R >PE, and other COLLI-RY STORES, except Electrical. Forms of tender and spec fication, with full conditions, may be obtained from Mr. J. R. Lambert, South Hetton, near Sunderland, and applicants for forms must state the kind of stores for which they wish to tender. Tenders addressed to the SOUTH HETTON COAL OO. LTD., South Hetton, near Sunderland, will be received up to the 4th December. \A7anted, a Jeffrey’s Electric Heading V V MACHINE, suitable for 500 volts, D.C.—Apply, Box 6228, Guardian Office. 30 & 31. Furnivai street. Holborn. London. E.C. Engine, Horizontal Compound, by Davey Paxman, 40 n.h p., cylinders 13in. and 21 in. by 24 in. WINDI NG ENGINES, 22in. cylin ers by 48 in. stroke, drop valves, two drums, 8ft diameter, 24in. wide by Holman ; equal new. 40-n.h p. Undertjpe Robey WINDING ENGINE, pair 14Jin. cylinders, 18 in. stroke. Boiler 100 lb. steam, coupled to two drums, 7 ft. diameter, 18 in. wide, oach drum loose on shift wrh chrch gear; equal new COMPRESSOR, by Holman, jet conder sinp, steam cylinder 19in.. air cylinder 18 in. by 30 in stroke hand variable expansion. A. UNDERWOOD, 3, Queen-street, E.C. VA7anted to Purchase, a number of 8,10, ▼ V or 12-ton second-hand Railway Standard Spe ification WAGONS. -Apply, Box 6231, CAliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E C. V/Tr. E. H. Wrigglesworth, Colliery i v JL Agent, Hull, has large and small collieries for sale.—Full particulars to Principals or their Solicitors. TJequired, good Second-hand Wagon 1 L WHEEL LATHE; state price and where can be seen —Apply, Box 6224, Co^ie^v Guardian Office.30& 31, Furnivai st, Holborn. London, E.C \Vanted, Direct Driven Generating Set, ▼ V steam pressure about 150 to 190 lb., generator shunt wound, about 120 to 150-kw.. 250 volts D C.; also similar set, about 20 to 30 kw., 110 vohs, D.C., with switch panels if possible; must be modern and in first-class con- dition.—Box 6226. Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31. Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. WATER TUBE BOILER FOR DISPOSAL. One Babcock & Wilcox, double drum, 1,741 square feet heating surface, 170 lb. steam pressure, with superheater and underfeed mechanical stoker in first clas^ condition, and can be seen steaming; is being replaced with a boiler of gi eater capacity. Further particulars on application to the BOROUGH ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, Croppers Hill, St. Helens. For Sale, Electric Power Plant in good condition, two sets of Triple Compound Engines. 9 in. diameter by 14 in. diameter by 9 in. stroke, makers Beiliss & Morcom. with two Generators.—Apply, BLAENDARE OO. LTD., Pontypool, Mon. Babcock Water Tube Boiler for Sale, 180 h.p., in thorough order, 150 lb. insu-auce, 108 steel tubes and headers, 1 7Wft heating surface, complete with Bennis sprinkling stoker.— HELLEWELL A OO., Royal Exchange, Manchester. 7anted, Works for Dismantling, Plant V V no longer required, boilers, tanks, machinery, &c., for prompt cash.—Write to B. J. WEBSTER, 119, Bow-road, London, E. J. W. BAIRD AND COMPANY, PITWOOD IMPORTERS, WEST HARTLEPOOL, YEARLY CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO WITH COLLIERIES. OSBECK & COMPANY LIMITED, PIT-TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. SUPPLY ALL KINDS OF COLLIERY TIMBER. TELEGRAMS—“ OSBBCKS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.*' BBe Guardian AND Journal of tho Coal and Iron Trades. Joint Editors— J. V. ELSDEN, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.G.S. HUBERT GREENWELL, F.S.S., Assoc.M.I.M.E. (At present on Active Service'). LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. The London coal trade continues brisk. The recent cold weather is depleting the stocks of house coal at the various wharves and depots. Prices remain firm, but the supplies are inadequate. Very little free coal is available, and contract quantities are slow in arrival.