Swanscombe Quarry Drawing Showing M&C Conveyor Belt

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Pencil and charcoal

Dimensions

11 x 15 ¾ inches

Provenance

The Estate of S R Badmin

Illustrated

Probably design for an advert for Mavor & Coulson Sectional Belt Conveyors, c1945

The locomotive pencil drawing below the main image is a saddle tank locomotive, a model regularly used in quarries to transport the stone.

Swanscombe in Kent was one of the largest cement quarries in Europe, it operated from 1792 until it finally closed in 1990. it is now the site of the Bluewater Shopping Centre. Mavor and Coulson (M&C) were Glasgow manufacturers of mining equipment, in 1940 they made a sectional belt conveyor, as illustrated by Badmin here. Because of the prominence of the M&C conveyor belt, It is likely that Badmin was commissioned by them to produce an advert, of which this is the preliminary drawing.

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