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Old 19-08-2018, 04:45 PM
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Default whittle colliery

At whittle the canch was in advance of the face so the face belt drive was in the high , loading on to a steel scrapper belt whitch the canch men loaded on to the tail end of the scrapper. The face was bottom belt loading with a plough at head end to stop coal goinng into the head end and making the coal onto the scrapper whitch loaded onto mother gate belt
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