Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,720 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Exhall Colliery

From Graces Guide

Located between Bedworth and Coventry.

1886 Report on the explosion of an egg-ended boiler. Two firemen were injured. From the limited evidence presented, the failure probably resulted from high-strain fatigue cracking from rivet holes associated with a poor patch repair.[1]

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