Railroad Gauge and Horses Asses

[wjstix]

Cotton Belt MP104

This “story” (Roman chariot to Thiokol boosters) I had seen before, but like the tomikawaTT explanation. What concerned me was, what is a colliery? As the “mine cart gauge” would HINT at what a colliery is ……I had to look it up to see: a coal mine and the buildings and equipment associated with it……why “don’t da word got an “A” in it”????....is coal called COLL in England?

 

 

According to Webster's, coal was spelled "col" in Middle English (English between the Norman Conquest and Shakespeare). If you know someone with the family name "Collier", one or more of their ancestors were British coal miners.

[schlimm]

wjstix

 

 

Cotton Belt MP104

This “story” (Roman chariot to Thiokol boosters) I had seen before, but like the tomikawaTT explanation. What concerned me was, what is a colliery? As the “mine cart gauge” would HINT at what a colliery is ……I had to look it up to see: a coal mine and the buildings and equipment associated with it……why “don’t da word got an “A” in it”????....is coal called COLL in England?

 

 

 

 

According to Webster's, coal was spelled "col" in Middle English (English between the Norman Conquest and Shakespeare). If you know someone with the family name "Collier", one or more of their ancestors were British coal miners.

 

Right.  When coal was still mined in the UK, the mines and facilities were called "collieries."

[Deggesty]

And, a collier is also a ship that is used to carry coal.

[wanswheel]

Also there was a famous Collyer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAod169FADM&t=20m50s

 

[tree68]

And another set of Collyer Brothers.

[Deggesty]

And, there was Collier's Magazine, which was NOT published for the coal-mining industry.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

And of course we must include the the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1, AV-3), which was rebuilt from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3).