Of course the shaft sinkers also used cap-lights like the miners.

Finally after all these disputes and discussions, only about 20% of the actual shaft sinkers, 9 in number, accepted these terms.

Afternoon and back shift teams of shaft sinkers commenced on Monday 27th February 1922.

Freddy frost, one of the original shaft sinkers, ran a Billiard Room.

Rod shook his head., Ultra-fast, multi-blast, and shaft sinkers rates.

South Africa's Shaft Sinkers has been contracted to build a shaft for $270 million.

After the introduction of the tripod working, the shaft sinkers operated in teams of 15 men working a three shifts day.

Shaft sinkers rates?

Roger Williams, a non-executive director at construction group Shaft Sinkers Holdings, has bought his first shares in the company.

Small-capper Shaft Sinkers, a mining services group, rose 1 to 24½p on reports it was the preferred bidder for a $75m contract in Kazakhstan.

When Ollerton colliery was opened in the 1920s, red house bungalows were built on Newark Road to house the shaft sinkers.

SHARES in underground construction group Shaft Sinkers have been on something of a roller coaster in recent weeks.

It also claims IMR facilitated the concealment of a report that questioned whether Shaft Sinkers's sealing technology could be effective on the potash project.

Meetings Premier Oil (AGM), Shaft Sinkers Holdings (AGM)

Shaft Sinkers has dismissed as "nonsensical" the claim brought by EuroChem, Russia's third-largest fertiliser firm over the flooding of a mineshaft that delayed a $4 billion potash project.

Bridge informs me that he, his brother Harry Bridge and a German named "Ned Innez" were the first three shaft sinkers employed at the Kalingo site in late 1921.

This was a result of the alleged inability of Shaft Sinkers to fulfill its contractual obligations and complete the construction of the Gremyachinskoe cage shaft, primarily due to problems with the grouting technology.

It claims damages of €660m over fraud allegedly committed by an employee of Shaft Sinkers, the South African mine shaft excavator company in which IMR holds a 48 per cent stake.

In the new case, the fertiliser group alleges that an IMR executive bribed a EuroChem employee with hundreds of thousands of roubles to cover up the alleged ineffectiveness of Shaft Sinkers' work.

Small-capper Shaft Sinkers also surged 4 – or almost 12pc – to 37¾p after announcing the resumption of its operations at both Lonmin’s Saffy mine and AngloGold Ashanti’s Moab project in South Africa.

Indeed, in Shaft Sinkers and U&N Equipment, for example, the Tariff Board found that "The three major components making up the hoist function as a complete unit for one purpose only, namely that of a hoist."

Despite the long delays and the time lag from the completion of the shafts and the Company's actual proposals to commence underground mining operations, the shaft sinkers were still claiming their seniority to become Kalingo Colliery's first miners.

Shaft Sinkers Holdings plc (LSE:SHFT), the international shaft sinking and underground construction group, advises that on Wednesday 17 October 2012 some of its workers at Lonmin’s Saffy shaft embarked on an unprotected work stoppage.

In October 2012 Shaft Sinkers presented an interim claim letter to the Group claiming compensation of US$ 45 million in costs incurred by them up to and inclusive of 30 September 2012 in connection with the termination of the construction contract.

METHOD OF WORKING: Considerable industrial unrest and associated problems during the whole period of the shaft sinking, influenced the colliery manager, Mr Charles Sumner, to consider that his shaft sinkers would make "poor miners".

He became a miner at an early age, eventually graduating to shaftsman before qualifying as a mine engine driver.

Michael Smith Drummond, Shaftsman, Blairmuckhill Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.