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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The drum is part of a double-ended electric coal cutting machine built by Eickhoff in the mid-1990s. Its design is based upon that pioneered by James Anderton under the auspices of the National Coal Board; it came into use from 1952, and came to account for 80% of all coal output cut in the UK.
