Winding safety devices. | Coal, Colliery and Mining Forum.
Jan 06, 2011#0183;#32;By this time in the mid 1970''s, ventilation had improved immeasurably, the supply of high voltage electricity and its implimented safety features down the tail gate, were a much better proposition to supplying through a coal face via a trailing cable, but it took much talking, persuasion, and proof to convince a union and workforce that the situation that exsisted in 1923 (before any of the