Protector Lamp Eccles have designed and supplied Olympic Flame lanterns for the Olympic Games, Olympic Torch Relay and Holy Fire transit for the last 30 years. They are also known as Eccles miners lamps, Davy Lamps, flame safety lamps and Deputies Lamps. We hold a huge stock of spares for Protector Lamps’ and we offer miners lamp repairs and servicing. Led cordless cap lamps for mines and quarries in the UK and overseas. Protector Lamp have been making flame safety lamps developed from the Davy Lamp at the factory in Eccles, England since 1890.
If you have an interest in mining and would like to help with the National Miners Memorial please have a look at the appeal video and follow the links.
Protector Lamp sell spare parts, fully refurbished miners lamps and we carry out miners lamp repairs and servicing on site. Carrying the Olympic Flame for over 30 years in the Olympic Torch Relays.
The GR6S Garforth mining lamp is the approved method of checking for firedamp in all UK coal mines. Protector Lamps also known as the Eccles or Davy Lamp, are based on the Sir Humphrey Davy principle. Flame Safety Lamps have been in constant use in coal mines since 1815 replacing candles and other open flames which were the cause of so many explosions.
