1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class I.: David Davies

81. DAVIES, DAVID, Bute Crescent, Cardiff.

Sample of Davies's upper four feet and Blaengwawr Merthyr steam coals.

These coals are on the English, French, and Spanish Government lists, and are largely consumed in steam ships, locomotive engines, and manufactories throughout the world. The following companies (as well as the London contractors, and consumers in every country) will testify to their superior quality:—

• The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company.
• The West India Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
• The Montreal Mail Packet Company.
• The Philadelphia and New York Transatlantic Company.
• The Cunard Royal Mail Company.

REPORT of William Allen Miller, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., King's College; of W. Hoffman, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., Royal College of Chemistry; and E. Frankland, Esq., Ph. D., F.R.S., Saint Bartholomew's Hospital.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF 100 PARTS OF DRIED COAL.

DAVID DAVIES'S MERTHYR AND STEAM COALS.	Nine-feet Vein	Upper Four-feet Vein
Theoretic and exportative power of 1 lb. of this coal	15.882	15.895
Specific gravity	1.328	1.356
Coke	88.05	85.60
Moisture	0.68	0.83
Frangibility Large	75.2	78.8
Frangibility Small	24.8	21.2
Ash	1.83	2.50
Carbon	89.52	89.27
Hydrogen	4.31	4.42
Nitrogen	1.20	1.32
Sulphur	0.89	0.78
Oxygen	2.25	1.71

See Also

• 1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 1