Percival Leigh Collinson
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Percival Leigh Collinson
Certified Colliery Manager. Professor of Mining and Fuels, University College, Nottingham.
Career:
- University College, Nottingham (Wm. Cooke scholar).
- Colliery training.
- Manager of Collieries in Derbyshire.
- H.M. Inspector of Mines.
- Mines Dept. Rescue Apparatus Testing Officer.
- Experience at many colliery fires and explosions.
In charge of the rescue work at the reopening of Gresford Colliery. Signal's Officer, R.E. during the war.
Special technical interests: Dusts in mines, ventilation, self-contained breathing apparatus and rescue work.
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