- Title:
- Coal Cutter Cannock Chase No. 9 Colliery
- Object name(s):
- photograph
- Brief description:
- black and white photograph which shows a Hopkinson jib and chain coal cutter in use underground at Cannock Chase No. 9 Pit (Old Hednesford) .The Hopkinson was an electrically driven chain coal cutter designed and manufactured by Mather and Platt in 1901 with provision for slewing the jib. A large number of these machines were built. For many years the Hopkinson was the only chain coal cutter built in the United Kingdom.
- Collection:
- Museum of Cannock Chase
- Associated concept:
- coal mining machinery
- Associated date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1910
- Date - latest:
- 1912
- Content - description:
- coal mining
- Object name:
- photograph
- Object number:
- P2020.0008.00006
- Responsible department/section:
- Museum of Cannock Chase
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ef09d665-545a-377f-84cc-0ad1e496e39a
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ef09d665-545a-377f-84cc-0ad1e496e39a, Museum of Cannock Chase, CC BY-NC
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