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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.

Memoranda, letters and correspondence relating to the representation of the Coal Owners Association on the Federation of British Industries' (FBI) Transport Committee and Grand Council, 1941; copies of minutes of FBI Grand Council meetings and meetings of the Transport and Executive Committees, 1933-1946; copies of minutes of the Coal Owners Association Transport Committee, 1933-1941, with related notes; copies of minutes of the Coal Owners Association Rates and Charges Committee, 1941.

Papers of the Smoke Abatement Society, mainly relating to conferences and other Society functions.

Material relating to a number of unrelated subjects, including hot axle boxes, 1938-1940; National Defence contributions, 1937; congestion at Cardiff and Barry Docks, 1936; breakages of coal in transit to Ireland, 1937; classification of Pond Duff, 1938; and increases in dock charges at Southampton docks, 1939-1940. Material comprises mainly memoranda, reports, letters and correspondence.

Files of correspondence and related papers, 1921-1923, 1937-1947; copies of the Coal Industry Weekly Summary, 1921-1923; correspondence with Philip Gee, Solicitor, 1936-1939, regarding wages.

Statutory Rules and Orders relating to many aspects of the mining industry including raw materials and timber control, 1939-1944; railway and dock charges, railway rebate schemes and railway safety, road traffic and vehicles, war damage, and the coal industry and nationalisation, 1918-1949. In addition there are files of correspondence with S.O. Carter of the Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, 1940-1946, relating to Rates and Charges and Transport Committee business, and general business correspondence with Ralph Thomas of the Ocean Coal Company.

Memoranda, letters and correspondence relating to the Coal Bill and peppercorn rent, 1943; indemnity required by private locomotives on public railways, 1944; and the purchase of Bristol Channel Ports (Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce), 1944; Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Dock Charges, 1944-1946. Also reports and papers of the Safety in Mines Research Board, 1923 and 1942, and the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Dock Charges, 1944-1946.

Letters, correspondence, copy minutes, formal comments and reports, and printed items, 1945-1946, relating to the Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill, including the Mining Association of Great Britain's comment on the Bill, a copy of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act of 1946, and printed material on the dangers of nationalisation (1919) and on the organisation of the National Coal Board (1948). The file also includes National Coal Board reports and accounts, 1948-50, and correspondence and letters, 1945, relating to the Office of Assistant Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, to the Export Credit Guarantee Fund, and to post-war industrial development of the railways and docks of the Great Western Railway.

Statistical information comparing earlier figures on output, exports and bunkers; proceeds, credits and debits per ton; fuel on board (F.O.B.) prices; prices of locomotive coal; and coal traffic charged at rates less than 1/6d and 1/8d per ton.

General business correspondence of the Commercial Department.

Material comprising letters and correspondence, official statements, and copies of meeting minutes, relating to a deputation to the Great Western Railway Company by members of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and the Swansea Chamber of Commerce requesting an additional entrance to Swansea docks. Also material relating to a minor accident at the King's Dock Lock.

Correspondence with the Mining Association of Great Britain relating to the coal mining industry in general, and also relating to specific topics such as pitwood, unemployment insurance, holiday clubs, workmen's compensation, Coal Utilisation Council research, the Welfare Fund Bill, pit ponies, miners' nystagmus, trade union membership, the provision of men and labour during war time, and post-war celebrations. General correspondence files may include not only letters but also memoranda, notes for deputations, and meeting notices, agenda and papers for meetings of the Central, Transport, Joint Standing Consultative, Propaganda, Timber, Wagon, Joint National Negotiating, and Post-War Research Committees.

Minutes of the Mining Association of Great Britain's Wagon Committee, April - November 1940, and the Central Committee, 1943-1946.

Material relating mainly to employment issues comprising correspondence and papers concerning Royal Commission on Workmen's Compensation claims, district wage agreements, meetings of the Coal Production Council and other councils and tribunals, the prohibition of strikes and lockouts during wartime; excess profits tax; applications for increases in wages and the pooling of wagons.