Ben Cooper
15 years ago
Someone asked me what the items on the Nobel's Explosives trade mark were, and I wasn't sure - does anyone else have any ideas?

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Looks like a pick and a tamping rod, probably, but I have no idea what the third thing is.

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Vanoord
15 years ago
The thing that looks like some sort of hammer with a long shaft?



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mikebee62
15 years ago
The " tamping rod " may be a hand drill steel and the other a sledge hammer for hitting it??, Just an idea?

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Ben Cooper
15 years ago
That's a really good thought - I had assumed they would be explosive-related items, but it makes sense that they'd all be mining tools.
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15 years ago
I'd go with the hammer and drill idea too, as they were the basic tools for putting the explosive in place.

Graigfawr
15 years ago
The tools are:

Drill steel or borer - there is a distict widening at the lower end.

Mallet (this is the term used by Williams' Perran Foundry Co) 'for beating borers'; the modern shape of sledge hammer head was termed a sledge but was desscribed as being specifically as 'used for breaking ores'.

Mandrel or pick; the shape of this one is typical of a collier's holing mandrel (note straight head; 'bottom' mandrels for cutting stone out of the floor of a stall or roadway were curved). In contrast, the classic metal miner's pick was single ended.

Above detail mainly derived from Williams' Perran Foundry Co catalogue of mining tools and plant, 1870. Other catalogues and textbooks will probably give varient names, especially for picks.

Ben Cooper
15 years ago

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