still poking around in old books looking for measurements no luck so far
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2972
http://outdoorplace.org/beekeeping/ukraine.htm
few pictures here
About page 14 a nice article by John Gleed who used to write for SBA mag as well
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sou...L-VOSw&cad=rja
Pdf of beekeepers quarterly lots of good stuff inc an article about buckfast X bee breeding in Spain
Easy to see it's pouring rain today
Last edited by The Drone Ranger; 16-09-2011 at 12:46 PM.
What about these pics.
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/glenhive.html
Says it takes 18-20 BS Deeps.
Jon
Good one I have ploughed my way through two volumes of "Beekeeping New and Old" no joy
Another oldie "Beekeeping" by Cumming & Logan has a good photo of one which I might scan in later and a glowing recommendation for the design,which includes the info that Dr John Anderson designed the hive for and I quote here
"the egg laying capacity of of the Italian Hybrid queens who took the place of the old British Black bees when the latter race was practically wiped out in the early years of this century" (The book was published 1950)
Dr Anderson was head of beekeeping at North of Scotland College Aberdeen when the hive was put on the market in 1918
So there might be something helpful there in finding the hive plans
www.scottishbeekeepers.org.uk/contacts/documents/3_theSBA.pdf
page 12 of 14 gives some extra background on the man and the SBA award in his name
Last edited by The Drone Ranger; 16-09-2011 at 03:18 PM.
According the Dave Cushman, the Anderson took 18 - 20 and the Glenn, just 15 although from ther photo it looks bigger than 15.Originally Posted by Jon
I made a couple of 16 frame nationals with the view that there would be enough space in them. They didn't really work so I now have some 8 frame Nationals instead which work much better.
Adam is that using 14x12 frame or something ??
Ok, so maybe i have a project ahead of me to custom build one using Smith measurements seeing as that is what i am currently using. I suppose basically it's just a double brood, but horizontally rather that vertically.
how about 14"x12" frames and a broodbox + super fixed together with the super underneath
Along those lines. But was thinking of tacking 2 broods together giving me a 22 frame long hive.
Anderson published plans and people modded them as they saw fit. I have seen "Glens" and owned a couple many years ago now which took 15 frames and 20 frames so they were built with what people had to hand and to suit their strain of bee.
PH
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