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Established by [[Reginald Stanley]] | |||
1896 Advertising for staff.<ref>Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 19 May 1896</ref> | |||
1937 Engineers and ironfounders. | |||
1939 'Dear Sir, I have a newspaper cutting with head-lines about a mystery machine which bored tunnels in the Dover chalk cliffs. No doubt the machine was made at the above works at which I was an apprentice. There has not been any of those machines made for more than 35 years. The machine was the invention of the late Mr. Reginald Stanley, founder of the [[Stanley Brothers (Nuneaton)|Stanley Bros., Ltd.]], Brickworks, Nuneaton. The machine was known as the Stanley coal heading machine or Stanley's iron man. They were driven by compressed air and later by electric motor. Compressed air was preferable as the exhaust ventilated the heading. The machine was not for coal getting but for driving the roads out in the pit. These machines went all over the world, America, Australia, Africa, Borneo, etc. There is one of these machines at work in a Staffordshire coal mine. We sent them some spare parts a short time ago. I still have a model of the machine. No doubt this will solve the mystery. Yours truly, E. F. Birch, Nuneaton Engineering Co. Harcourt Villa, Princes St., Nuneaton.'<ref>Dover Express - Friday 26 May 1939</ref> | |||
1968 Premises bough by [[Clear Hooters]].<ref>Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 18 April 1968</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:45, 21 June 2022
of Tuttle Hill, Nuneaton
Established by Reginald Stanley
1896 Advertising for staff.[1]
1937 Engineers and ironfounders.
1939 'Dear Sir, I have a newspaper cutting with head-lines about a mystery machine which bored tunnels in the Dover chalk cliffs. No doubt the machine was made at the above works at which I was an apprentice. There has not been any of those machines made for more than 35 years. The machine was the invention of the late Mr. Reginald Stanley, founder of the Stanley Bros., Ltd., Brickworks, Nuneaton. The machine was known as the Stanley coal heading machine or Stanley's iron man. They were driven by compressed air and later by electric motor. Compressed air was preferable as the exhaust ventilated the heading. The machine was not for coal getting but for driving the roads out in the pit. These machines went all over the world, America, Australia, Africa, Borneo, etc. There is one of these machines at work in a Staffordshire coal mine. We sent them some spare parts a short time ago. I still have a model of the machine. No doubt this will solve the mystery. Yours truly, E. F. Birch, Nuneaton Engineering Co. Harcourt Villa, Princes St., Nuneaton.'[2]
1968 Premises bough by Clear Hooters.[3]