Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

U611/

Memorandum, from Denny Lane, Craven Hotel, London to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Contains observations on gas making systems Lane has seen in Coventry, particularly ‘inclined retorts’. Notes the stokers wages at 4/9 per 8 hour shift, and the fact that workers were not exposed to any heat and also that the coal moving in Cork Gas Works could be done for much less. The workers prefer the inclined retorts over the horizontal, and an Irish stoker told him that he used to go to bed after 8 hours at the horizontal, ‘but goes to have a walk after the slopers’. 3pp 130 [March 1893] Memorandum from Denny Lane, Craven Hotel, London to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. He has just arrived from Manchester. Observes that ‘The air in Manchester district was dreadful and affected Travers so much…he rushed away from it…’. 2pp

(ii) Correspondence to J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. (1879-1894) (14 items)

131 17 February 1879 Memorandum from ‘F.L’ to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. ‘I scarcely think it was fair to submit me to a cross examination in the technology of Gas making without first giving me sufficient notice that my examiner was the one who thoroughly understood the manufacture of Gas’. 1p 132 [1879] Note from Michael P.Buckley, Corporation Auditor to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Asks O’Mahony to ‘check the foregoing with what I gave you this morning…I was in such a roaring passion while writing it that I really forget what I said….’, Also note,

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