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Administrative files created and kept by the Commercial Department of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. The department dealt mainly with commercial aspects of coal mining, which included the maintenance and use of railway wagons for coal transport, the negotiation of special railway rates and dock charges for the transport and shipping of coal, the negotiation with foreign countries for the exchange of Welsh coals for pitwood during wartime, the loading of coal and provision of special machinery at docks, compliance with government legislation on the health and safety of miners, negotiations with miners' groups on wages and holidays, and representation in the Mining Association of Great Britain.

Commercial Department files relating to the maintenance, repair, pooling and wartime requisitioning of colliery wagons. Material comprises letters and correspondence, circulars, reports, statistics, memoranda, extracts of committee minutes, and some technical specifications and drawings.

Papers relating to the Joint Sub-committee of representatives, 1933-1937, and the Mining Association of Great Britain Sub-committee, 1939-1946. Material covers topics such as draw hooks and bars, wheels with cast iron bosses, G.R. plating and repairs, 1933-1938; standard metal-bodied 12-ton mineral wagons, 1934-1935, and the wagon census of 1937.

Papers covering subjects including drawbar hooks and springs on private owners' wagons, 1933-1934; regulations regarding repairing and rebuilding wagons, 1930-1946; representation on Committee of Private Owners Wagons, 1930-1931; an addendum to specifications and drawings for mineral and tank wagons, 1933-1934.

Details of collieries owning requisitioned wagons, 1942, the oiling and greasing of requisitioned wagons, 1939, and repair contracts, 1939.

Papers include returns regarding extensive repairs to wagons, 1940-1943; patch repairs of requisitioned wagons, 1944; numbers of requisitioned wagons owned by the company and associated colliery companies, 1945; a proposed increase of 5% in railway rates, and owners' questionnaire returns, 1937.

Returns, statistics and some letters relating to wagon entitlement under the draft 'System of Control' scheme.

Forms showing details of the average number of wagons on temporary hire or owned by the colliery companies, also, the number of hired wagons on period hire and the average number of buyers' wagons loaded daily.

Lists of private owners' wagons exempted from the requisitioning order of the Ministry of Transport.

Correspondence and statistics of collieries with facilities for receiving wood by lorry and weighbridges, 1940, and replies from owners of collieries that are able to weigh inward traffic, 1943.

Particulars of wagons owned and general repair plates.

Summary of replies to questionnaire, technical drawings and copies of various committee minutes.

Large group of papers on subjects including wear and tear allowance for income tax purposes, 1939; the provision of terminal facilities for 20-ton wagons at collieries, 1930-1933; terminal charges (1926 proceedings of the Railway Rates Tribunal); private siding agreement at Fernhill, including a copy of the 1912 Agreement, 1931-1932; damage caused to private wagons and injuries to repairers, 1930; papers of a test case regarding responsibility for payments for the renewal of points and crossings near colliery sidings, 1927-1931; the classification of goods; and the price of Welsh coal to the Swedish Naval Authority, 1930.

Papers relating to double screening and insurance for Trimmers at South Wales ports, 1933-1936; charges for internal uses, 1941; and owners' responses to questionnaires regarding wagon-building facilities, 1941.

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.

Papers relating to the re-taring of wagons, 1940-1943; use of converted wagons, 1937-1940; storage of empty wagons, brake lever pins, 1937; the inadequate lighting on appliances, 1932; fire risk on traders' wagons, 1936 and 1946; and coal shipping appliances available at the Bristol Channel ports, 1937. Contains some papers relating to the Jamaica railways converting away from steam locomotives, 1936.