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Report and minutes of evidence of the Departmental Committee on the use of Bobbinite, and other explosives of a similar nature, in coal mines.

Material relating to arrangements for the trimming and boxing of coal, comprising letters and correspondence, reports and news cuttings. The material relates primarily to the formation of a special committee to enquire into problems concerning coal trimming practices at South Wales ports, trimming disputes at Newport docks, and trimming practices at Northern European ports.

Papers relating to breakages of coal during transportation, particularly during the loading and unloading of coal; machinery and practices available to help minimise losses resulting from coal breakage. Material comprises memoranda, letters and correspondence.

Statistical tables and charts relating to British and foreign trade and industry, 1854-1908.

Material relating to the British Coal Utilisation Research Association including Articles of Association, 1938; annual report, 1942; minutes and papers of General Meetings, 1938-1947; minutes of Council meetings, 1938-1946; minutes and memoranda of the Domestic Fuel and Appliances Commmittee, 1946; minutes of the Programmes Advisory Committee, 1938-1946.

General reports and papers of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, including some research publications.

Papers comprising notices and drafts of forthcoming British Standards relating to picks, mattocks, screen analysis of coal, sampling of coal, mining type transformers, miners' lamp bulbs, tests for steam boilers, and other technical subjects. Also, revisions for standards and specifications including miners' lamp bulbs pump tests and test sieves. Includes the handbook of British Standards, 1942 and 1943, and monthly information sheets, September 1944-December 1946.

Material relating to the coal and bunker trade, in particular transport and shipping charges and procedural concerns regarding the loading of coal onto vessels. Material comprises mainly reports, letters and correspondence.

Statistical calculations showing the new 1915 standard rates, and other tables.

Clydach Vale seams, and Pentre seam. Includes printed price list of Tonnage and Rates at Cambrian Collieries, 1915 Standard, printed c.1915 and 1926.

Papers concerning the substitution of oil for coal, including correspondence with Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, 1946; the increase of duties on steam driven vehicles, 1933; steam road vehicles, 1934; the practice of using coke for coal in the Portsmouth District; various Bills promoted by railway companies regarding canal charges, 1935, including a handbook on canals 1918; the British coal campaign comprising bulletins and letters to the press, 1939; coal utilisation and research, 1943; papers of the British Colliery Owners Research Association, 1939-1946.

Correspondence and papers relating to Portuguese pitwood, and pitwood supply arrangements with the Forestry Commission and Ireland.

Llanbradach colliery. Includes printed Memorandum of Agreement between Cardiff Collieries Ltd. and their workmen,1923, and a list of rates and wages for the 4ft and 9ft seams,1920.

Minute books, 1892-1947, of the Cardiff District Board of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. Minutes for the period before 1892 are included in the Association's General Minute Books (A1/1-5). The minutes cover a range of activities, such as the Boards' considerations of claims for compensation made by members within the district; resolutions embodying its recommendations on these claims for the consideration of Association meetings; preliminary hearings on individual disputes; pursuing investigations of disputes and agreeing on settlements; consideration of reports from members; preliminary consideration of applications to join, or leave, the Association; annual revisions of Assurances of members; the election of officers and the implementation of Association policy within the district.

Material relating to the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, the nationalisation of coal mines, membership of the Exporters Association, the depressed state of South Wales trade, and export subsidies. Material comprises meeting notices and agenda, memoranda, correspondence and reports of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce.