Electric Cap Lamp Archives - Old Flames https://oldflames.com.au/category/lamp_type/electric-cap-lamp/ Dedicated to rekindling yesteryears’ lights Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:30:58 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 http://oldflames.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-oldflames_logo_512-32x32.png Electric Cap Lamp Archives - Old Flames https://oldflames.com.au/category/lamp_type/electric-cap-lamp/ 32 32 Electric Cap Lamps http://oldflames.com.au/sponsor/bosuns-mate/bm_post5/ http://oldflames.com.au/sponsor/bosuns-mate/bm_post5/#respond Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:30:19 +0000 http://oldflames.com.au/?p=3652 It’s been a lot of years since everybody at the mine carried an oil lamp, but in later years everybody carried one of these. The first ones I remember having ... [Read More]

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]]> It’s been a lot of years since everybody at the mine carried an oil lamp, but in later years everybody carried one of these. The first ones I remember having had a very poorly designed filler plug and were terrible for leaking. Within a couple of weeks, the back of a new jacket would rot through. If you could get someone in the workshops, for 20 cigs, they would strip 3 or 4 plies from an old piece of belt, and rivet it together to make a pouch. The Lampman would remove the belt clip for you to make it a good fit. The lamps pictured did not have the removable steel belt clip, they’d progressed to moulded loops on the battery.

As far as I know, there were 9 different colour bezels for the lamps and a variety of coloured helmets. Some collieries I believe, tried to introduce a colour code, made up of a combination of the colours of lamps and helmets to identify the workforce, with regard to who and what they were. I never heard of one that was successful.

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