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IMPORTANT TWO DAYS' SALE OF COLLIERY and ELECTRIC PLANT, DROSS WASHING and COAL CLEANING PLANT, RAILWAY SIDINGS , D.C. COAL CUTTERS, CONVEYORS , HAULAGES, PUMPS, D.C. MOTORS , CABLE, STEEL ARCH GIRDERS, LIGHT BAILS, PIPING, BUILDINGS, FURNISHINGS &c. including-
Dross Washing Machine, capacity about 40 tons per hour, with Silt Recovery Plant ; 2 Coal Picking Tables , 45 ft x 4 ft , with Shaking Screes and HutchTipplers; Corrugated Iron-clad, P.P . Framed Structures of Coal Cleaning Plant and Pithead Houses, with W.P. Floors and Staging; 45 ft P.P Trestle Pithead Frame; 2 Lancashire Steam Boilers, 30 ft x 8 ft, insured at 150 and 100 lbs pressure; 300 KW, DC . 500-Volt Electric Generating Set with Belliss & Morcom H.S . Engine and Condenser; 20 KW DC. Motor Generator , Volts 500/100; 30 DC. 500-Volt Motors, from 150 to 3 HP., with Starters and Controllers; Three 17 in and 14 ½ in ANDERSON-BOYES DC 500-Volt Chain Coal Cutters, 2 Siskol DC. 480-Volt Electric Heading Machines ; Two 15 in D.C. 500-Volt Electric Shaker Conveyor Driving Gears , by British Jeffrey Diamond Ltd 50 Conveyor Troughs; 20 in Electrically-Driven FLP. Flat-Belt Face Conveyor Driving Gear, by British Jeffrey Diamond Ltd., Volts 500 DC, Two 26 in MECO Electrically-Driven Belt Gate-End Loaders,Volts 500 D.C.; 8 Turbine and Centrifugal Pumps ; Two 5 in x10 in and 4 1/2 in x 6 in Horz Three-Throw Ram Pumps, Five 4 in x 6 in Horz . Duplex Bucket Pumps; 2 Tangye Horz. Duplex Steam Pumps; 30 H.P Main and Tail Rope Haulage , by The Blantyre Engineering Co. Ltd.; 3 Endless Rope Haulages, 50 and 20 HP; 45 in Belt-Driven Ventilating Fan, capacity about 25000 Cub ft, 6 in x 6 ½ in Vertical Twin-Cylinder Air Compressor by Broom & Wade Ltd with receiver (in new condition ); C.P.T Sinker Hand Rock Drill; Reduction Gear Unit , Ratio 63 / 1 : 1 ¾ in x 4 in Three-Throw Ram Pump, for hand ; 10 in Sirocco Fan; Pair 16 in x 42 in Coupled Winding Engines; Two 12 in x 24 in Horz. Driving Engines; 1807 yards Railway Sidings , about 80 and 75 lbs per yard , with Crossings and Connections; 30-Ton Waggon Weighing Machine ; 40 Cwt . x 28 lb . Pooley Hutch" Weighing Machine ( new 1941 ), 280 Tons Steel Arch Girders , 11 ft x 7 ft x 5 ins x 3 ins ; 6 ft x 6 ft x 4 ins x 3 ins and 6 ft x 5 It 6 ins x 4 ins x 3 ins , with . Fishplates and Bolts ; 140 Tons F . B . and Steel Bridge Rails, about 14 lbs . per yard ; 9000 ft of 3 in M . S . Piping , with Loose Flanges ; 1300 ft of 8 in and 5 in M.S . Piping , with Loose Flanges; C . I . Pipes from 9 ins . to 3 ins ; 18 Tons Steel H . 'Beams , from 8 ins x 6 ins . to 5 ins x 3 ins ; . C . I . and Steel Pit Plates ; 110 Hutches , 27 ½ in Gauge Grooved Rope Pulleys , Rope Rollers and Bevel Pulleys ; 30 Platforms; 10 Sets Points and Crossings; 1700 yards Twin Core D. and S.W.A . Cable , from 37 / 13 to 19 / 18 S.W.G; 1500 yards . 04 and . 02 Three-Core Cab-Tyre Cable ; Large Quantity New-Pitwood ; 1200 ft of 4 in x 3 ½ in P . P . Slides , with . Fishplates; 2 Pillar Vertical Drills ; Power Hack Saw ; Circular Saw Bench ; Hand Mortising , Machine ; 20 in Portable Forge , with 250-Volt D . C . Blower ; 2 D.O. Forge Blowers, Volts 500 and 100 ; Smithy and Engineering Tools ; 100 Lots New Colliery Furnishings ; FLP. Mining Telephones ; FLP Signal Bells, New HS Twist Drills, Files and Saw Blades ; New and Used Balata Belting, Iron 8 ins Broad New Rubber Conveyor Belt. 20 ins Broad 75 ft . long ; Steel Framed Corrugated IrSn Building , about 51 ft x 22 It x 16 ft to Eaves ; Brick Buildings of Engine Houses , Workshops and Offices, with Slated Roofs
AT BRAEHEAD COLLIERY , FAULDHOUSE, WEST LOTHIAN , On TUESDAY , 5 th and WEDNESDAY 6 th December 1944 , beginning Each Day at 10.am. prompt . SHIRLAW, ALLAN & CO ., AUCTIONEERS , HAMILTON , have received instructions from Messrs BARR . & THORNTON LTD, Coalmasters, 68 Gordon Street , Glasgow , owing to Abandonment of Colliery , TO SELL , BY AUCTION , as above . On view three day prior to Sale . Catalogues from Auctioneers . Hamilton . November 1944
The Scotsman, 25th November 1944
