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Where Flame Safety Lamps made by Edgware Engineering Limited ?

If my memory serves me correctly I think I’ve come across a couple of examples of miners lamps bearing the brass embossed makers plate of Edgware Engineering Ltd. Can any of the lamp collectors out there confirm if they know of lamps made by this Middlesex based engineering company which was formed in 1943?

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Mark

Re: Where Flame Safety Lamps made by Edgware Engineering Limited ?

Never come across one. If they were brass founders then they could have made a small quantity of lamps. I think it would be the more likely practice that they rebadged other makers lamps and sold them as their own. London does not seem a likely place to supply miners lamps to collieries, however ships chandlers did sell safety lamps for use in cargo ships holds and also to the Royal Navy.
I have had several examples of these kinds of lamps, including a lovely blue enamelled Protector that was a presentation lamp for the Navy.

Re: Where Flame Safety Lamps made by Edgware Engineering Limited ?

Thanks Charles

I guess the lamps I am thinking about could easily have been re-badged Eccles. I came across one in the UK and the other in a bric-a-brac shop in Cape Town about 10 years ago. This last one had a simple number brass stamped lamp check hanging from it. Unfortunately it had no pit name on it but I'm guessing that it could have been from the nearest African coalfield to the Cape which is Natal.

Thanks

Mark

Re: Where Flame Safety Lamps made by Edgware Engineering Limited ?

Hi Mark,
Enclosed are pictures of the Hull lamp. It is a clanny by George Clarke & Sons. MAKERS, Hull. This would indicate that they made the lamps, maybe for ships holds (No Pits in Hull My Lad!). If you look them up, they are Brass Founders, but I think MAKERS is poetic licence and in fact they are rebadged, although it is possible they could have been made there. It is a six and three bar lamp, the bottom is reminisent of a Patterson B7, but who knows? It came out of Germany and is unfired.