June 2, 1916. THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. 1047 rpiie Directors of the Powell DulTryn _JL Steam Coal Co. Ltd. invite TENDERS for the supply of the under- mentioned STORES from the 1st October, 1916. No. 16. GREASE AND OILS. No. 18. PAINTS, DRYSALTERIES, &c. Forms of tender aud full particulars can be obtained on application to the Stores Manager. Aberaman Offices, rear Aberdare. Samples, to be sent addressed to the Powell Duffr>n Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Laboratory, Aberaman, of Grease and Oils, so as to be received not later than July 17th, 1916, and of Paints, &c.. by August 2nd, 1916. Tenders to be addressed to the Directors of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., 101, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.,' and posted so cs to be received not later than 10 a.m. Wednesday, September 6th, 1916. The directors do not bind themselves ito accept the lowest tender, and they reserve to themselves the right to accept any part of a tender. 101, Leadenhall Street, By order, London, E.C. H. E. CLARKE, Secretary. • GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY (IRELAND). rphe Directors are prepared to receive JL TENDERS for the purchase of one 50-h.p. Horizontal, Single Cylinder, Double-acting STEAM ENGINE, by F. Pemberton, Iron Works, Dundalk, 28 in. stroke, and fitted with heavy flywheel 9 ft. diameter by 12 in., 14^ in. diameter cylinders, 80r.p.m., 801b. steam pressure, and spare main shaft and driving disc. Above can be seen on site at the Locomotive Works, Dundalk, as workirg up to the 1st April, 1916, when it was superseded by electric drive. Tenders should be delivered under sealed cover endorsed “Tender for Steam Engine.” to the undersigned not later than ten a m. on Wednesday, the 7th June, 1916. ; The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the highest or any tender. Secretary’s Office, T. MORRISON, Amiens-street Terminus, Dublin, Secretary. 18th May, 1916. , HYDRAULIC PUMPS FOB SALE. TTydraulic Duplex Pump, two steam 1—L cylinders 5^ in. by 8in. stroke, four rams 2in. diameter, makers Greenwood & Batley; £35. Set Hydraulic Duplex Pumps, double acting, by the Leeds Engineering Co., water pressure 2C01b, steam pressure 120 lb., plungers 2J in. and 2| iii. diameter, cylinders 16| in. by 12in. stroke; price £100. Set Hydraulic Duplex Pumps, by Tangye, cylindeis 12in. by lOin. stroke, rams 2in. diameter, 1.5C0 lb. pressure ; price £85. All the above pumps are in very good condition. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. LATHE FOB SALE. Massive 16 in. Centre Lathe, S.A.S. and S., faceplate 5ft. diameter, with removable milling attachment and slotted table, compound slide rest, five speed cone, overhead gear. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. WINDING ENGINES FOB SALE. Pair very fine Horizontal Winding Engines, by Holman Bros., cylinders 22 in. by 48 in. stroke, drop valves, dashpots, and cut-ofl gear, drums 8 ft. diameter by 25 in. wide, one loose drum with Welman friction clutch; modern pair winding engines of massive design, and in appearance and condition almoft as new; £850. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. PUNCHING AND SHEARING MACHINES AND BOLLS FOB SALE. Very fine double-ended Punching and Shearing Machine, 30 in. gaps, weight about 15 tons ; this machine is new and ready for delivery. Hydraulic Lever Punch Press for holes 9 16ths diameter, plates J in. thick, 18 in. gap, 2J in. ram, by Fielding & Platt. Hydraulic Lever Shearing Machine for plates in. thick, 18in. gap, 2^ in. ram, by Fielding & Platt. Double-ended Punching and Shearing Machine, steam driven, punch gap 24 in., shear gap 20in. One ditto, ditto, gaps 27 in. and 24in., with angle cutter attached. Strong Plate Edge Planing Machine, crosshead with five screws, length of bed 17ft. 8 in., travel 14 ft.; price £160. Set Heavy Plate Bending Rolls, with Vertical Engine for driving, three rolls, one fixed and two removable, 9 ft. long by 1 ft. wile. Set Heavy Plate Bending Rolls, by Smith Bros., rolls 16Jft. long, top roll 24^in. diameter, 2 bottom rolls 19^in. diameter; massive rolls in first- class condition, approximate weight 50 tons. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. STEAM ENGINES FOB SALE. Fine Modern Type Horizontal Cross Compound Engine, by Havwood Tyler, cylinders 16in. and 26 in. by 32in. stroke, sensitive governor, Rider’s expansion gear, flywheel lift, by 18 in. turned face : in excellent condition; price £350. Self-contained Horizontal Compound Jet Condensing Engine, by Jas. Milne & Son, cylinders 12in.and21 in.by24in.stroke,flywheel,&c., counter- shaft gear. Horizontal Engine, by Hick Hargreaves, cylinder 18 in. by 36 in. stroke, Corliss valves ; fine engine, complete; £250. Horizontal Engine, by [Midland Railway Co, 18 in. by 26in. cylinder, Pickering governor, heavy flywheel; price £1CO. Horizontal Engine, by Robev, cylinder 13in. by 26in. stroke, Pickering governor, heavy flywheel, together with Vertical Feed Heater; fine modern engine; price £100. Two Vertical High Speed Compound Engines, by GWynne,cylinders 12in. and 18in. by 9in. stroke; price £120 each. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. STEAM AND ELECTRIC CRANES AND STEAM NAVVIES FOR SALE. B-ton Loco. Crane, by Smith, 80 lb. . w.p.; £550. 5-ton Balmforth Loco. Crane. 33ft. jib; £500. • 3 ton Loco. Crane, by Smith, 100 lb. w.p.; £400. Two3-tonElectric Loco. Cranes,by Smith,; in fine condition, at reason- able prices. 3-ton Pcrtable Electric Gan'ry Crane capable cf lifting 3 tins at 45 ft. radius; gantry arranged so that tiucks can run between standards; very fine modern crane; price £850. 2-ton Loco. Crane, by Bedford Engineering Co.; £210. 2-ton Loco. Crane, by Jessop & Appleby; £175. 5-ton Steam Derrick Crane, by Isles, 45 ft. jib, steel mast, 83 lb. w.p.; in excellent condition: price £180. 10-ton Fixed Steam Wh^rf Crane, by Wilson, steel derricking jib; £450. 2 12 ton Wilson Crane Type Navvies, W.I. carriage and frames, 1001b. pressure; modern type. 10-ton Whittaker Crane Type Steam Navvy, 4 ft. 8^in. and broad gauges, 80 lb. w.p.: price £650. 7 ton Whittaker Crane Type Navvv, 100lb. w.p.; price £650. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. PUMPS FOR SALE. Two pair Horizontal Twin Cylinder Air Pumps, by Klein Engineering Co., cylinders 18§ in. by 16 in. stroke, with flywheel and driving pulleys, belt driven ; £150 per pair. Horizontal Tangye Duplex Pump, 18in. steam cylinders, 13in. pumps, 12 in. stroke; in fine condition ; £160. Tangye Vertical Special Pc nip, 3C0ft. series, cylinders 14 in., pumps 10 in., stroke 24 in.; £75. Two Gwynne Vertical Compound Engines, coupled direct to Centrifugal Pumps, 16in. delivery; fine condition; price £150 each. Centrifugal Pumps, 5 in., 6in. and 8in. outlets: at low prices. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTQN. ELECTRIC PLANT FOR DISPOSAL. "O' agnificent 450/600-kw. Generator, by LvJL Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., compound wound, 230 volts, d.c., (0 r.p.m., complete with switchboard and all ac:essories; price £1 400. 350-kw. Westinghouse Alternator, coupled to Willans & Robinson Vertical Compound Engine, 2.400 volts: a very fine set; price £500. 300-k.w. Alternator, by the G.E.C . 180 r.p.m., 50 peiioc s. 230 volts, with exciter; this is very fine plant, nicdem type, in exce'lent condition, and of splendid design; price £600. Two 50/75 kw. Generators ciup’ed, by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., compound wound, 230 volts, d.c.; machines coup’ed together by flexible coupling enabling them to run singly or in parallel; complete with switch- board and all accessories; price £530; generatorswill be sold separately if desired. 275 h.p. Siemens d.c. Motor, 400/500 volts; price £425. 140 h p. Motor, by G.E.C., 440/500 volts ; price £200. One totally enclosed Motor, 15/20 h.p. 220 volts, 4 pole, 750 revs., box holder with coupling box one end of shaft, room for pulley other end; machine practically new. Complete Electric Lighting Set, by Clarke, Chapman & Co., 165 amps., 65 volts, 300 r.p.m.; price £65. One combined automatic high speed Vertical Engine and Generator on one bedplate, by Westinghouse Co., coupled to 30 kw. six pole Generator, 125 volts, 350 r.p.m.; price £125. JOHN F. WAKE, DARLINGTON. J. W. BAIRD AND COMPANY, PITWOOD IMPORTERS, WEST HARTLEPOOL, YEARLY CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO WITH COLLIERIES. OSBECK & COMPANY LIMITED, , PIT-TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEWOASTLE-ON-TYNE. SUPPLY ALL KINDS OF COLLIERY TIMBER. : ’ Telegrams—“ Osbecks, Newcastle-on-Tyne.” *** For other Miscellaneous Advertisements see Last White Page. AND Journal of the 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, JUNE 2, 1916. The London coal trade is still suffering from short supplies. The depot and delivery trade is quiet, but the pressure for all kinds of fuel is increasing rather than decreasing. Merchants are keenly anxious to increase their stocks. Present prices (which are at the maximum rates) are to form the lowest summer prices. Steam coals and small nuts are exceptionally scarce, and the demand is strong. The Tyne and Wear trade was affected to some extent by the uncertainty which prevailed before the Board of Trade issued definite figures for coal to France. Supplies are still behind demand, despite lessened domestic consumption, and prices remain strong. Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Midlands report an almost unchanged ztate of affairs, the difference being chiefly a slight increase of fuel on offer at Barnsley. South Wales showed some un- certainty in consequence of arrangements for shipping to France, and the wages question, but prices have been firm throughout. Business in Scotland is rather easier. After a conference with coalowners and exporters the Board of Trade issued a scale relative to the supply of coal to France. The scale does not affect existing contracts. Some second-hand holders of coal aver that they have bought the coal they hold for Italy, Greece or Scandinavia, and collieries state that their output is already booked up. Sir George Askwith and the representatives of the South. Wales miners held prolonged conferences this week regarding the mens’ claim for an advance, and the masters’ claim for a reduction. Representatives of labour interests attended a conference at the Ministry of Munitions. It was unanimously agreed that the Whitsuntide holidays be postponed until the end of July. The South Wales Miners’ Federation recommended that the Whitsuntide holiday be limited to one day. It has since been announced that the Whitsuntide Bank Holiday has been deferred until Tuesday, August 8. Lord Loreburn having, declined to act as neutral chairman at next week’s meeting of the Scottish Cbal Conciliation Board, Lord Strathclyde has been invited to preside. The sixty-fourth general meeting of the Institution of Mining Engineers will be held on Thursday, June 8, at Burlington House, Piccadilly. The agenda includes papers relating to coal. A meeting of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers will be held in Newcastle to-morrow (Saturday). Several papers will be open for discussion. The French Government has issued a decree fixing maximum price for the sale of coal in France by The Board of Trade has announced Coal Supplies the completion of its arrange- for France.. ments with British coal owners, exporters, and ship owners, for the regulation of the supply of coal to France for the period of the -war, and the new scheme is announced to have come into operation on June 1. We have already called attention to the various interests affected by these proposals and the difficulties which had to be met. It appears that the full details of the arrangement are now in the hands of the Chambers of Commerce in the various districts, but as "these details are not yet available for publication in their final form, it may be assumed that some minor adjustments may still be under consideration, for upon no other grounds would the . Board of Trade be justified in withholding them from the Press.' In the meantime sufficient is known to show that Mr. Runciman’s original proposal to fix f.offi. prices on a basis of 20 per cent, below the current market prices on March 8 last, is not the final solution which has been accepted by the parties concerned, for this would have brought down the price of large steam coal at Cardiff to 26s. 6d., whereas it has been officially announced bn the Cardiff Coal Exchange that the agreed price of this class of coal is 30s. Maximum prices for other classes have also been fixed on a similar scale, and the general result will be to reduce prices all round by amounts varying between 40 and 50 percent, below those now current for prompt supplies on the Cardiff market. The ship owners, as we have already stated, had egreed to accept the basis of a 20 per cent, reduction on the freight rates ruling on March 8, but it was obviously unreasonable to place f.o.b. prices on the same basis as freights, because the factors involved; are by no means identical. The rise in freights has been out of all proportion to the rise in thel selling prices of coal, and the new schedule for: freights from British ports to the coast of France will still leave a handsome profit for the ship owners. The colliery owner, on the other hand, has all along experienced a difficulty in main- taining an average margin of profit owing to m^ny causes only to be fully appreciated by the initiated. These were doubtless' fully explained to Mr. Runciman’s satisfaction at the conference held, last week at the Hotel Cecil under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Nimmo, president of the Mining Association of Great Britain. In what precise manner the matter was finally adjusted has not yet been publicly disclosed, but it is generally understood that the principle adopted was to add a fixed amount to a certain pre-warprice. The chief difficulty would naturally lie in the adoption of any uniform scale of adjustment to suit the variable conditions in the different coal fields, and it will not be surprising if it should eventually be found that the accepted compromise, has been arrived at upon somewhat independent fines. The main thing is that a schedule of maximum prices for all classes of coal has now been fixed.throughout the country for export coal to French ports,,and both the Board of Trade and the colliery owners are.to be congratulated upon a successful issue to wliat at first seemed an extremely difficult task. „ Even with such a schedule, however, we cannot imagine that the prices can bo regarded as rigidly fixed, because there must be several minor factors involved in the preparation of certain kinds of coal for the market, and these could only be assessed after due consideration of individual cases. Exactly how., , such cases will be met we shall doubtless learn in due course. That they will have to: be met is obvious when we consider how different; are the expenses incurred in placing upon the market such a coal ns washed anthracite of the kincls commonly - exported from South Wales. Then, again, there is the position of the exporter to be considered. The services rendered by the coal exporter are both manifold. and essential. He is by no means in the position of a mere middleman as commonly conceived, who waxes fat by specula- tive buying and wicked extortion. The coal exporter . does a great deal of necessary work in arranging the various details incidental to chartering, stemming and loading. There is much skilled labour involved in those details, and without it the whole export business would fall into confusion—to say nothing of the heavy cost of demurrage that would inevitably arise in the loading ports. Now that the ship owners have accepted maximum freights, it is abso- lutely necessary that they should be relieved of any risks of demurrage in loading. We have still to see, also, what arrangement is made for demurrage at French ports, .where’ there has. often been very serious congestion ,• and the question of port dues, which vary considerably in ' different ports, must