716 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. April 13, 1917. Coal Handling Equipment for Gas Works. Yet other important equipments at Copenhagen which must be referred to are those provided for dis- charging coal for the requirements of the extensive gas works which supply the city. For the western works, three high level steam cranes are available on the quay. These cranes are of a similar type to those first described, and are used with grabs for discharging vessels. The hopper in the tower structure of the crane serves to transfer the coal by a chute into cable cars, the tracks of which are supported on an elevated trestle. There are 28 of these cars, which have a capa- city of 2-1 tons, and the combined length of the out ward and return tracks is 2,800 ft. A continuous steel haulage cable is used, to which the cars are gripped at the starting point, and they are automatically dis- charged by a track trip block at the positions desired. The cable is driven continuously and at a slow speed, so that an operator at the loading end can easily step on the car to release it for re-loading. The bottom of the car is of double V hopper shape, and it is dis- charged by release of the sides which hinge outward from the top. The coal is delivered from the cable cars into hoppers built beneath their tracks, and is distributed over the storage ground by means of auto- matic cars, the tracks of which are at right, angles to those of the cable cars, and at a lower elevation; thus the automatic cars are loaded from the cable cars through the track hoppers referred to. (Fig. 2.) At both the eastern and Valby gas works the equip- ments are similar in arrangement, although rather smaller, there being at both two movable cranes, each having a discharge capacity of 80 tons per hour, a Fig. 3.—Coal Transporter, Korsoer, Denmark. r % ■..-•a ■ At Bandholm there is 18 ft. depth of water along- side the quays, which have been extended compara- tively recently. There also a transporter bridge is available for discharging coal and delivery to railway wagons, and a storage ground. (Fig. 4.) THE MINING ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. The 63rd annual meeting of this association was held at the Savoy Hotel, London, on Wednesday afternoon, April 4, being preceded by the usual meeting of the executive council at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, the President (Mr. Adam Nimmo) occupying the chair at both meetings. Representatives were present from the undernamed districts: Lanarkshire, Fife and Clackmannan, North- umberland, Durham, Yorkshire (South and West), Lancashire and Cheshire, North Wales, North Staf- fordshire and Cannock Chase, Derbyshire, Notting- hamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, South Derby- shire, Erewash Valley, South Staffordshire, Mon- mouthshire and South Wales, Forest of Dean, Bristol district, and Somersetshire. The undernamed were amongst those present: — Sir William Scott Barrett, D.L. (hon. treasurer), Mr. Reginald Guthrie and Col. R. S. Williamson (hon. auditors), and Sir Thomas R. Ratcliffe-Ellis (law clerk and secretary). The following members regretted they were not able to be present at the council and annual meetings: — sure they would all agree with him that, whoever Mr. Nimmo’s successor might be, he would have a very difficult task, and that he would have all the sympathy that could be extended to him, for he was sure he would need it. He sincerely hoped that during Mr. Nimmo’s second year of office he would be able to inform them in regard to many matters in connection with the mining industry in which they were all interested. He hoped that, being on so many com- mittees, he would advise them in regard to the various matters, as they arose, as to what transpired, for their material benefit. Mr. W. G. Phillips (Warwickshire) said it gave him great pleasure to second the resolution so ably put by Mr. Crawshaw. He had attended most of the meet- ings in connection with the association, and he must bear his testimony to the fact that Mr. Nimmo had always proved himself a most excellent chairman on all occasions, when he had been able to give them most valuable information. He possessed all the vigour and resource to enable him to carry out his arduous duties as president of that important association, and he had the greatest pleasure in seconding a resolution which he hoped they would show their approval of in the usual manner. Col. W. C. Blackett (Durham) said he did not think the North of England representatives would like to leave that meeting without giving their cordial sup- port to the resolution which had just been moved and seconded. It was not necessary that he should attempt to say much in praise of Mr. Nimmo, whose qualities had been proved to them; but one thing he would say, and that was that he doubted if the association ever had, or could have, a better president. On being put to the meeting, the resolution was carried with acclamation. Mr. Nimmo said he had already had an opportunity of expressing his thanks to many of them for having, at the meeting of the council on March 2, nominated him as their president for the ensuing year, but he would like again to express his very warm apprecia- tion of their having so unanimously re-elected him to the office of president. He felt especialty indebted to Mr. Crawshaw and his colleagues in West Yorkshire for having postponed their claim to nominate one of their number for the presidency in his place, but he had been encouraged by the manner in which they had marked their confidence in him. It would be most superficial vanity on his part to imagine that he had done all that ought to have been done by him as their president, or that he had retained the best traditions of the office, but seeing that they had invited him to render them what service he could during next year, he felt it would be churlish on his part not to show his appreciation of their attitude towards him, and if he did not give them his services. The war had undoubt- edly brought very great changes, which had very deeply affected the mining industry, but he thought he might say the coal owners everywhere had adjusted themselves to the changed conditions, as well as any other body in the kingdom, and he thought they had cable car system, and 16 automatic car tracks, for distribution of the coal over the storage ground. Reference may next be made to the port of Korsoer, where there is a large coal discharging and storage equipment for the requirements of the Danish State Railways. Coal Handling Equipment for the Danish State Railways. The coal imported into Denmark for the purpose of the State Railways amounts to a large tonnage, and special equipment is available for handling this. The coal is discharged at the quayside by high level movable semi-gantry cranes; these cranes having fixed jibs, but of the inclined, not curved, pattern, the outer end being at a higher elevation than the shore or delivery end. These cranes serve coal tubs which are hauled on an elevated track by an electric locomotive to the storage ground about 1,000 yds. distant. A transfer bridge spans the storage ground, and is movable over the ground at right angles to the elevated railway; the trucks are transferred to this bridge, and the tubs discharged as required over the storage ground. This bridge also serves for re-handling by means of a traversing trolley. A small equipment is available at Gjedser also for the State Railways, where the coal is landed from smaller craft by means of a low level steam crane working with tipping skips; the skips are conveyed to the coal storage ground in this case on trucks by means of an elevated cable track. Another coaling depot at Korsoer (fig. 3) is equipped with a movable bridge transporter, which spans a storage ground adjoining the quay, and railway wagons on the quay tracks are loaded direct from the trans- porter by means of hopper chutes. Coal handling plants are available at several other ports of Denmark, including Elsinore, where there is a tower-type transporter for discharging coal to a storage ground CO ft. from the quayside, the depth of water available at this quay being about 21 ft. Bunker supplies are frequently effected at Elsinore in tubs or barrels having a capacity of about one-sixth of a ton. At Esbjerg a large transporter bridge is available for discharging coal either direct into railway wagons or to a storage ground beyond the quay. The port of Esbjerg comprises a lock basin with 18 ft. depth of water alongside the quays, which are 2,400 ft. in length; an outer harbour with 1,000ft. of quayage, with a depth of water alongside varying from 17 ft. to 22 ft.; and an inner harbour with 900 ft. of quays, having a depth of 10 ft. to 15 ft. alongside. The entrance channel to the port is 500 ft. wide. ■SI Fig. 4.—Coal Discharging at Bandholm, Denmark. Messrs. Samuel Roberts, M.P., Alfred Hewlett, Charles Hardy, W. O. Wood, T. H. Deakin, Tom P. Martin, H. Dennis Bayley, R. Richardson, George A. Mitchell, A. H. Crichton, Adam Nimmo (Wallyford), James Borland, A. F. Pease, W. Perrott, G. C. Greenwell, J. Francis Warrington, W. Hay, Ben Day, and Selby Gardner. A number of important matters affecting the coal mining industry were considered by the executive council, and the report of the council and the audited balance-sheet and statement of accounts of the associa- tion for 1916-17, with the hon, treasurer’s report on the same, were adopted, the report to be signed by the president on behalf of the council. Election of President. At the annual meeting, Mr. C. B. Crawshaw (West Yorkshire) said he had great pleasure in moving: That Mr. Adam Nimmo be and is hereby re-elected the president of the Mining Association of Great Britain for the ensuing year. Mr. Nimmo, he said, had made a most excellent pre- sident during the past year, and had on all occasions most lucidly put his points before them, and he was shown their desire to stand by the Government, and to assist them to bear any burden they had to carry at the present time. They did not see an end of the con- flict yet, unfortunately, but he thought they were approaching, if they had not already approached, the crux, and he hoped that by the time they reached the next annual meeting the darkness and misery which surrounded them and other nationalities would have passed away, and that they would meet in the light of victory which he felt was coining to the country, and which he was sure they would all do their best to secure. He desired to thank them very much for their marked confidence in him, and to say that, so far as he could make the effort, he would only be too happy to supply it, and to endeavour to be of as much use as he could during the remainder of his office. (Applause.) A formal resolution was, on the motion of Mr. W. H. Hewlett, accorded to the president for his valuable services during the past year; for which he thanked the meeting very heartily. On the motion of Mr. Guthrie, it was resolved that the Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres and Mr. A. F. Pease be re-elected vice-presidents.