Before I read Mike Gill's informative answer to his own question, I went to look it up in my copy of
Peele's Mining Engineers' Handbook. The entry in this is itself dated, as it says:
"Koepe system of hoisting: In this old European system, which has not been used in America ...." !!!
The original copyright in my 1963 edition is dated 1918.
Tony Brewis
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