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I worked on the Rushy Park seam in Ravenhead colliery as I was doing my shotfiring training and the original Anderton shearer was on that face. I was told that the original shearer was made by fitters in the central workshops at Haydock and Jimmy Anderton took the credit for the invention
the original machine was adapted from an AB15 longwall machine. The gearhead was removed and turned on its side and a cutting head fitted instead of the chain. The original drum was only 20inches in diameter and used to travel up and down the face twice, after which as it did its second run, the shotties fired the tops down and these were loaded via the plough as the machine came back down the face