Hi All

I wonder if anyone has come across any information on W. Maurice Georgi,
B.Sc. M.I.E.E.  ?
He was apparently “head-hunted” from the technical staff of Siemens &
Halske in January 1904 by M.T.Pickstone, a Director of Bruce Peebles &
Co., Edinburgh.

He read a paper to the Manchester Geological & Mining Society in March
1904 on “The Application of Electricity for Winding and other Colliery
Purposes” as well as a paper to the Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and
Mechanical Engineers in July 1904  entitled “Notes and Considerations on
systems having Work of an Intermittent and Irregular Character to Perform:
Methods of Load-compensation.”

He acted as Consulting Engineer to the Oakeley Slate Quarries Co. with
regard to their electrification of 1906, drawing up the  “Specification of
Electric Plant” for their “Power Distribution Scheme” – a tender which was
won by none other than Bruce Peebles & Co., with Siemens as
sub-contractors! His address at that time was given as 25 Queen’s Terrace,
Newcastle on Tyne. Was he by then an independent consultant, or was he
still working for Bruce Peebles & Co.?

He appears to have continued as consulting engineer to the Quarry  for
some time, reporting on the state of electrical plant in 1914. (Perhaps I
should add that the actual consulting engineers & surveyors for the
Oakeley Quarries throughout this period remained Thomas Jones & Son, and
that Georgi’s position related purely to the electrical side.)

In passing has anyone come across the “PPP Patent” o/h electric mining
locomotive(s) produced by Bruce Peebles, and illustrated  on the advert
reproduced in the page on Bruce Peebles in “Graces Guide” on the internet?

Cheers

Graham Isherwood

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