On Wed 21 Jun, Roger Gosling wrote:
> I have volume 1 of Practical Coal Mining by WS Boulton pub Gresham 1910. 350pp H/B.
> Does anyone know of a volume 2 for sale or that I could borrow (maybe in exchange for
> a look at Vol 1 if you haven't got that)? Does anyone know if there was a volume 3, .
I have the volumes published in 1913 under the same title, editor and
publisher. In this case there are six volumes but volumes 1 & 2 make up what
appears to be your volume 1. This hypothesis is helped by the fact that the
pages in volumes 1 & 2 are numbered consecutively whilst volume 3 starts
again from page 1 and runs into volume 4. Volume 5 begins at page 1 and runs
on into volume 6. From this I surmise that the set that you have volume 1
from was in 3 volumes.
[snip]
> I assume vol 2 must start off with something like
> Transport of coal to the shaft bottom
> Raising the coal
> Processing the coal
Haulage
Winding
Pumping
Ventilation
Transmission of power
Vol.3
Lighting
Colliery explosions and rescue appliances
Mineral holdings
Mine-Surveying
The preparation of coal for the market
Coking and recovery of by-products
Economics of coal
Index
> Unfortunately I haven't got the volume which will inevitably give the names of the coa
> l chunk sizes!
Having looked through the index and briefly scanned the text I can find no
definitive list of coal sizes. Vol 6 p.316 mentions "nuts of various sorts,
cobbles and large coal".
I cannot better what Tony Brewis has posted on the subject of coal sizes and
which accords with the evidence I can find in advertisements from the
1930's.
Cheers,
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