Mining Items

A Huwood UK Miners Helmet. Made from compressed pulp card with leather sweatband, felt padding and thick cotton webbing. Made by Huwood of Thetford, England. Used around the 1950’s and 60’s.    

A Texolex UK Miners Helmet. Made from Texolex (a hard dense plastic material) with a reinforced peak. With a P.V.C sweatband, cotton webbing and leather chin strap. Made by Campbell, UK. Used around 1950’s and 60’s.  

A Texolex UK Miners Helmet. Made from Texolex (a hard dense plastic material) with a leather sweatband and cotton webbing. Made by Campbell UK. Used around 1950’s and 60’s. This version of the helmet hasn’t got the reinforced peak.  

A Texolex USA Miners Helmet. Made from Texolex (a hard dense plastic material) with a leather sweatband and cotton webbing. A USA Miners Helmet with a full broad rim.    

A White Plastic USA Miners Helmet. A white plastic USA miners helmet, M.S.A Confo Cap. Made from plastic with an airtex sweatband and cotton webbing. Made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  

Green Fibreglass UK Miners Helmet. An unusual green fibreglass UK miners helmet. Made from a fibreglass material with a leather sweatband and cotton webbing and cotton webbing chin strap.   Made by the Everoak Company, UK. This company also made motorcycle safety helmets. They may have been intending to start making a mining helmet and this may have been a …

An Aluminium USA Miners Helmet. Made from aluminium with a plastic sweatband and interior with a leather chin strap. Makers unknown.    

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. An early type of white plastic helmet issued by the N.C.B. without the moulded hoops for a chin strap. Used throughout the 1970’s.       This image (as seen right) shows that the cap lamp cable holder clip missing, the vinyl strap that clipped the cable to the helmet very often broke …

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. This helmet is the later type with the moulded hoops for a chin strap. Used throughout the 1970’s.         Back view (as seen right) showing the intact lamp cable clip.          

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. This helmet was the new type used throughout the 1980’s. Made by Centurion, Thetford, England.  This modern type of helmet was designed to be up-off the head and didn’t seem to fit right, they looked too big and too high up, as if they would fall off your head.