Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Mechanical loader

12BU Joy Sullivan gathering arm loader. Number plate 12 BU 272CBN.

08/11/2011 - Paul Meredith - 710 of these machines were built between 1935 - 1957 and were used to move rock and coal with the moving arms and along the chain conveyor to a conveyor or drams placed behind. Believed to have originally worked at Graig Merthyr Colliery.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2001.1/481

Measurements

Length (mm): 7000
Width (mm): 1400
Height (mm): 750
Weight (tons): 5

Categories

Coal 20th century, mid
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