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Comprises a series of printed statistics of freight traffic and rates. Years 1924-1930 are wanting.

Working papers of the committee, relating to dock charge de-rating relief by the Great Western Railway Company.

Material relating to special railway rates for coal-class traffic comprising correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings, and an official map of British railways.

Papers relating to subjects including harbour docks and piers charges, 1923-1931; Coke Owners Association, exceptional rates for coal-class traffic, 1923-1927; Great Western Railway dock charges, 1929-1930; rates charged for the conveyance of coal to Bristol Channel ports, 1931, and a map showing rail links to Newport, 1927.

Papers relating to exceptional rates and standard shipment rates, 1921-1928 and 1937. Also Railway Rates Tribunal Procedures, 1921.

Papers supporting a reduction in railway rates, 1936-1937; owners agreeing to pay a share of expenses, 1936; a lists of abandoned mines, 1928; and sundry statistics, 1927-1937.

Correspondence and statistics on pre-war railway rates to the ports of Newport, Cardiff, Barry and Swansea, 1922; a memorandum on the South Wales position of the Committee on Industry and Trade, 1924; a memorandum regarding the South Wales export trade, 1925; notice of increase of rates from 1 October 1927; new rates on steel, 1928; the Railway Wages Agreement, 1928; relief given to railway companies of local rates, 1928; coal for export to the Mediterranean and Portugal, 1927; an enquiry into railway rates and charges on the continent and U.S.A., 1928; and German railway rates, 1928.

Questionnaire returns and correspondence regarding amounts charged by railway companies for demurrage and internal use.

Commercial Department files relating to the sourcing, allocation and distribution of timber used for pitwood in South Wales collieries. Material includes letters and correspondence, circulars, barter agreements, statistics, colliery reply forms, extracts of committee minutes, and related papers.

Subjects include the exchange of French pitwood for Welsh coals, and applications for licences for the importation of coal to France.

Papers relating to the agreements to exchange coal in return for pitwood, including the distribution of pitwood to collieries, July to September 1934-1935; the uptake of allocations, 1935-1937; reduced imports from Portugal, 1935; general correspondence regarding pitwood for coals, 1935; and transfer certificates, 1934.

Papers relating to disputes over the charges for pitwood consigned from port to colliery between members of the Coal Owners Association and the Great Western Railway. Included are letters and memoranda.

Subjects include the exchange of French pitwood for Welsh coals, and applications for licences for the importation of coal to France.

Subjects include the exchange of French pitwood for Welsh coals, and applications for licences for the importation of coal to France.

Correspondence and papers relating mainly to the exchange of pitwood for Welsh coals and regarding issues such as the weighing of pitwood, railway wagon hire charges, dock tolls, pitwood allocation and consumption, wagon repairs and wagon pooling, as well as routine business matters.

Comprises importers' statistics for the allocation of pitwood by Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood; return forms for the weighing of pitwood, 1944; Forestry Commission pitwood, 1944; and general letters and correspondence of the Commercial Committee and exporters of pitwood, 1937-1938.

Papers of the Association of French Agents, 1936, and material relating to the Annual Congress of French Coal Importers, Strazburg, 1934 and Dieppe, 1937; the import of coal into France, 1934-1936; and barter agreements between France and Belgium, 1939. Material comprises letters, memoranda and reports.

Papers of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood Importers Association Ltd., relating to discharging costs, 1940; correspondence relating to the Glanamman Anthracite Collieries, 1937-1938; additional quantities of pitwood during 1939; discharging and trucking of pitwood, 1940-1946; imports during the war, 1939; statistics of shipments (coals) to France; communications and general correspondence with collieries, 1937-1940; and letters of the Standing Committee on Mineral Transport, 1934.

Agreements and related papers, relating to the Anglo-French Pitwood Agreement, 1938-1940; letters and memoranda regarding the arrangements for stock made during peace time, 1939; shipping policies and costs, 1934-1935; papers of the Pitwood Sub-Committee, 1945; correspondence relating to the resumption of imports after the war, 1946; specifications of pitwood supplied, 1936; statistics on Pitwood purchases and coal exports, 1934; licences to transfer to other countries, 1939; letters of Sir Alfred Faulker, M. Duboscq, M. Pelletier and W. A. Philips, 1938-1940. Includes the original signed copy of the Anglo-Welsh Pitwood Agreement, June 1934.

Material relating to rates charged for the return of owners' coal wagons, comprising letters, memoranda, and printed schedules.