The Story of Scottish Coal

In addition to people working in the mines, there were many specialist engineering companies, such as Anderson Boyes of Motherwell, who designed and built electrical machinery that was flameproof and therefore safe to use underground. Anderson Boyes, and their principal competitor, Mavor and Coulson of Glasgow, were world famous throughout the 20th century for their mining machinery, and eventually merged into one company. Other Scottish engineering companies produced a wide variety of equipment for mines, such as winding engines, conveyors, coal preparation plant, and railway wagons.