Safety Lamps and ATEX Lighting Solutions

Published and available from James & James (Publishers) Ltd A unique collection of poetry and prose about coalmining and coalminers compiled by William Maurice during his ownership and management of Wolf in Sheffield from 1912 to 1940. Including D.H. Lawrence, Robert Burns, Emile Zola and J.B. Priestly.

The Wolf Safety Lamp Company was established in Leeds in the 1880's as a distributor for a German mining lamp manufacturer. In 1913 the Leeds company was bought and moved to South Yorkshire where it began to develop safety lamps more suited to British methods and regulations of mining and quarrying.

The company was incorporated in 1916 and in 1934 moved to the larger Saxon Road Works, where it is still sited today. Throughout the following decade many new developments were carried out in order to meet new safety regulations and demands for better lighting, the most significant was the development and the introduction of compressed air operated lamps. These are still manufactured today, though much improved due to modern light source and control technology.

The 1960's and 70's were a period of great change and diversification for the company as the demand for mine lighting decreased. The path of progress was to lead to the industrial sector of safety lighting and by the 1980's the company had developed new industrial safety lamp products establishing themselves as national and international market leaders.