W. E.Teale & Co, Sb, A5, 21pp includes full colour photos of lamps

Teale started his career as a salesman working for his father who was a cotton manufacturer. He was initiated as a freemason in 1864 where he probably met Fountain Clarbour in 1868. The year before Teale had presented an idea for an improved Protector lamp to the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers to which a patent was made in the name of Fountain Clarbour. As Teale made the greater financial input the business W. E. Teale was formed. Unfortunately Clarbour was charged with embezzlement in 1872. As a result Teale looked for new partners, The Protector Lamp and Lighting Co Ltd a new company was formed in May 1873 to acquire the business and patent rights of William Edward Teale. Teale with them for 16 years after a legal battle over patents in 1889 and set up W. E.Teale & Co. he made and sold a comprehensive range of miners lamps including a piston lamp. He died in 1912 the year before became a limited Company with his son Edward. That company continued until around 1950 when it was taken over by Protector at its height of business it was producing a range of 20 different lamps.

The book is a fascinating history, with full colour photographs of lamps produced