Are the Lamps made by Teale with brass plate or stamping
made when he was with protector or after.

Mr Teale was dismissed from Protector on the 10th December 1889.
Teale started his new business on the 1st May 1891, from this date his
Lamps carried the name W.E. TEALE.

The reason for his dismissal are ..1 extract from the minutes.
Finding of money overdrawn from the company regarding travel expenses.
2 .. infringement of Howats lamp deflector patent, by court order Protector had To pay a royalty of 2/6d per lamp on 700 lamps to Howat.

The following note appeared in The Colliery Guardian, December 20th, 1889 :

" Mr William E Teale, the well-known inventor of the Protector safety lamp for miners, announces that he has disposed of his interests in, and resigned his position as managing director of the Protector Lamp and Lighting Company Limited, of Swinton, near Manchester, but it is his intention to continue in the same business. Mr Teale was the founder of the business in 1873, and his efforts connected with the safe lighting of collieries have been very satisfactory, as there has not been a single life lost from explosion in any colliery where the Protector lamp has been adopted. "

Alan Vickers.