tarboat's photos with the keyword: advert

Ceramic tiles panels on 58 High Street, Leicester. This is a shop premises dating to 1903. The architect was A. E. Sawday for T. E. Butler, Son and Co., chemists. The Sea Breeze advert is a bonus. The building is listed Grade II.

BRECO advert from the 1946 Colliery Year Book. The photo of a bicable system hints at being of an installation in a warm country. A full description of the system shown is to be found in Meccano Magazine, June 1947, p270. AERIAL ropeways form an ideal means of transport when comparatively light loads have to be carried across hills and dales, roads and railways, and other obstacles. They can be constructed over practically any length, the longest one in the world at present having a length of 70' miles; and they have been built to handle capacities up to 300 tons per hour. The ropeway shown in the accompanying illustrations was built, designed, and supplied by the British Ropeway Engineering Co. Ltd., London, to the Associated Cement Co. of India for use at their Bhupendra Cement Works, which are situated a few miles from Kalka, near to the foothills to the Himalayas. The ropeway carries limestone from the quarries to the works and handles 100 tons per hour over a length of miles. It is in one straight line from end to end, no angle stations being involved; it crosses the paths of several wide rivers, a main road and a broad gauge railway. A large part of the route is through the forest of Malla, which is a hunting preserve of the Maharajah of Patiala. In designing the ropeway it was necessary to allow, over the forest portion of the route, for the buckets containing the material to be at such a height that they would easily clear an elephant and howdah. The individual loads in each bucket on the ropeway are 14 cwt.; they move at a speed of 140 yds. per minute and are spaced about 59 yds. apart. The ropes that support the loads are of steel and are of locked coil construction, that on the loaded side of the rope¬way having a circumference of 4¾ in. and that on the return side a circumference of 3⅜ in. The rope that hauls the loads along on the track rope is 2⅜ in. in circumference. The route of the ropeway has a fall in favour of the loads and under normal conditions only about 6 h.p. is required to drive. The photo shows a double tension station, which is provided to ensure that the correct tension is applied to the track ropes. The cages are filled with concrete blocks of the correct amount to produce this tension.It is essential that these weights should be hung freely as they have to take up any variation in the length of the rope due to temperature changes or rope stretch. Wherever an aerial ropeway crosses a road it is usual, in order to safeguard traffic passing below, to provide some form of protective bridge or net.

Advert for the British Ropeway Engineering Co Ltd. in the 1963 Guide to the Coalfields. By this time I don't think the practical advantages outweighed the capacity and economic considerations and the company was selling few, if any, new ropeway systems in the UK. That said they are still in business today.

Page from the 1908 catalogue of S. Flory Manufacturing Co of Bangor, Pennsylvania which is new to me as a ropeway manufacturer. The company manufactured a wide range of hoisting machinery and specialised in suspension cablways. It also offered an "Improved Elevated Wire Rope Tramway with Patent Carriage and Grip", for which these buckets would have been ideal.

"Coal" in July 1954. This machine looks similar to those featured in the 1970 ad, but is significantly smaller.

Advert from Modern Gasworks Practice 1921. Lewis Cockey came to Frome about 1685 from Warminster and established a bell foundry. The family business diversified in the 18th century and in the early 19th century began casting for the Gas Industry. Edward Cockey (1781-1860) became a successful iron-founder and in 1816 founded the firm which by 1851 was employing 76 men and boys in the Palmer Street foundry as Edward Cockey & Sons Ltd. In 1886 this became a limited company and in 1893 the works moved to the Garston area of the town. The Frome Gas Company was founded by Cockey and the town had had gas street liqhting as early as 1831. They made ‘art nouveau’ gas light standards with a leaf pattern were made by Cockey. The firm was wound up voluntarily in April 1960 leaving a legacy of bollards, drain covers and lamp standards, many displaying the name.

Foden dump trucks in an advert from Mines and Mineral Engineering, Sept 1970. These vehicles look both small and rather dated compared with modern vehicles. The photo seems to have been taken at the Craigahulliar (sometimes written as Craignahulliar) quarry located 3km SE of Portrush. It was worked by Portrush Columnar Basalt Company Ltd. until the 1980s and has subsequently been used as a refuse tip.

1909 advert for a company specialising in materials handling equipment. The firm, which was established in 1889, continues in business at Grange Works, Wellington Street in Accrington.

The New Conveyor Company specialised in conveyors and elevators but also operated as general mechanical engineers. In 1914 the company was listed as proprietors of the Midland Engineering Company. It was acquired by Tube Investments, Ltd in 1951. In 1961 the firm employed 800 people and in 1968 it supplied the coal handling plant for Cottam Power Station. This 1907 advert was published in the Journal of Gas Lighting.

Coal advertising on the two faces of a clock on the big warehouse at Sheffield canal basin. The Tinsley Park Colliery Company Ltd. had its registered office at 14, Wharf Street, Sheffield, just the other side of this building.

Having started a new group for aerial ropeways I thought I ought to start posting a few relevant images beyond those that have been uploaded for a while. This is taken from the 1952 Guide to the Coalfields and features a rather fanciful setup at the top and a fine piece of actual practice at the bottom.I wish I knew where that particular ropeway was. There were several companies offering ropeways in their portfolio at this time.