Abstract
AT the first meeting this season of the South Wales Branch of the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers, held at Cardiff last month, the new branch president, Mr. D. J. Thomas, gave his inaugural address. He referred to the position of the colliery electrician, who is surrounded with regulations and restrictions, with equipment under his care on which many lives may depend, unless frequently inspected, and yet he has little authority and practically no status. The equipment also with which he is provided has often passed its useful life, while much of the new equipment supplied is unsuitable for the class of work to which it is put. The apparatus has to withstand rough usage, and Mr. Thomas believes that there is insufficient appreciation on the manufacturers’ part that there are conditions other than purely electrical ones that have to be considered. The increasing amount of machine mining performed electrically and the wholesale electrification of surface and underground equipment make the modern colliery absolutely dependent upon electricity, and the mining electrical engineer holds a position of very great responsibility. It is of vital importance that this should be recognized.
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Mining Electrical Engineers. Nature 144, 937 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144937a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144937a0