Exhibition Label Text: Safety lamp, 1920s.
This early safety lamp has no lock, If extinguished a miner could have relit it with a match, defeating the point of having a safety lamp in the first place.
H 25.0 Diam 9.0 cms.
– Digital image on Keeper’s computer – S:/Keeper/MyPictures/Exhibitions/DisplayNewVisitorCentre. Taken October 2003.
– Neg. N41.
– According to Bert Garret aluminium lamps are quite rare as their use underground was banned in the 1960s because aluminium sparked very easily when struck. This lamp has a screw lock (quite early- lack of safety) and a pin adjusting wick. He dates this at 1920 at the latest.
– This object was purchased with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions (see file B7)