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Miners' Safety Lamp Cleaner

Standing in the lamp cabin at Beamish Museum drift mine is this Ackroyd & Best Ltd. miners' safety lamp cleaning machine, manufactured in 1927 and equipped with specially designed brushes to clean all parts of a stripped down safety lamp.

 

The machine is now electrically powered, but was originally driven by steam pressure.

 

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Uploaded on February 16, 2009
Taken on February 5, 2009