Graham, Many thanks for clearing up that mystery. My search continues for any photos of the western end of Oakeley in its working days.

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At risk of extending this further off the original topic:
Here are photos from Caban of:
P Floor compressor:
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DE Floor compressor:
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I think it very unlikely that any photos will emerge of the Chamber 34 area post war showing the machinery. It was an area effectively abandoned by then. It "may" have been photographed between 1933 and 1940 - I have not come across any photographs of the de-watering drilling by Messrs Isler, but it is possible that that was written up in some journal somewhere and therefore there might be illustrations with it. One can live in hope - after all the Hunter double tunneller turned up! As I said before - who knows?

Still working on the Oakeley Back vein - reconciling several editions of the plans is proving problematic.;(;(
(will probably start a new thread at that point.)
Grahami

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The drivers position on the "P floor" compressor looks leathal with those belts and no guard!
Where was Elf and Safety! 😮

I imagine the caban photo, like any others was deliberately posed - there is one of an incline driver posed on the motor base frame within a few inches of the massive main 5:1 gearing!

Grahami

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Part of the film "Y Chwarelwr" made in 1935. This bit starts with Bagnall Kidbrook and then the workmen coming home on the "car gwyllt". There is a story that there was a school near the quarry and the headmistress used to go home on the car gwyllt!!!


http://education.gtj.org.uk/film/filmitem.php?lang=en&id=30400 

Car gwyllt also refers to the velocipedes used on the Padarn Railway