I treated myself to a second Eccles Protector lamp.
A splendid piece of engineering.
Now that is just plain greedy!
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I treated myself to a second Eccles Protector lamp.
A splendid piece of engineering.
I don't suppose you happen to be a leading authority on lamps do you? I've got one that I found in my gran's house after she died and would like to know where it came from. It's got a plaque saying E. Thomas & Williams Ltd but no model number or anything helpful like that. It looks different to the ones I've found on-line. I've been wanting to polish it up and light it one day but I'm not sure if it's just for decorative use.
I'm afraid I am no expert and that is not one I've seen before.
I take it you have seen this web page?
Might be worth talking to the National Mining Museum, they might be able to tell you something.
I saw that one. Most of their lamps seem to have the large oval plaque like the one shown there but I can't find any that match this one. Big Pit national coal museum is only a mile or so from my house as the raven flies actually so that's a good idea. Sadly I'm not a raven and there's a big mountain in the way but it's only a 20 minute drive or a 2 hour hike.
Not much to go wrong with them and no reason why it can’t be used.
I've got one by the same makers that I know to have been a working lamp, and it is a little different to yours; I think they've made them for years like yours that folks could buy at the mining museum and places like that and as far as I know they are perfectly functional and will last as long as those certifird to go underground.I don't suppose you happen to be a leading authority on lamps do you? I've got one that I found in my gran's house after she died and would like to know where it came from. It's got a plaque saying E. Thomas & Williams Ltd but no model number or anything helpful like that. It looks different to the ones I've found on-line. I've been wanting to polish it up and light it one day but I'm not sure if it's just for decorative use.
I don't know about that. According to the website link above:
"The company continues to operate from a factory in Robertstown, having moved there after their Aberdare premises were destroyed by fire in 1978."
I'm sure it wasn't connected to their lamps...