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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.

Material relating to railway rates and credit agreements for transporting coal on Irish railways, 1925-1933; London Midland and Southern Railway's schedule of rates to docks, 1932. Also papers relating to the Railway Reform League, 1932, and the Penny Transport Scheme, 1932. Material comprises mainly memoranda, letters and correspondence.

Papers relating to the regulation of work hours at docks, in particular the arrangements for holidays and daylight work shifts. Also some material relating to the loss of coal trade in the London area. Material comprises mainly memoranda, letters and correspondence.

Papers, including letters and correspondence, reports, memoranda, formal statements and printed matter relating to the proposed co-ordination of road and rail services for the transportation of merchandise. Topics covered include railway company proposals for the easing of statutory restrictions in order to allow fair competition with road transport, the report of the Salter Rail and Road Commission, and the responses of various coal owners' organisations and the Federation of British Industries on the proposed changes and general issues regarding the transportation of goods by rail, by road, and coastwise. Also contains a file relating to the Cardiff Tugboat Workers Dispute, 1936.

Minutes of the Joint Standing Consultative Committee for the Coal Industry, 1937-1943, and minutes of the Joint National Negotiating Committee, 1943-1946. Material also includes letters and correspondence relating to the Mona Private Hotel, Penmaenmawr; solid fuel cookers; 12 and 14-ton wagons; coal charter parties (brokerage); the conveyance of hydrochloric acid; rates and tolls at Immingham; a Great Western Railway accident at Shrivenham; and minutes of Traders' Panel (Swansea Chamber of Commerce) meetings, 1936. Also includes printed matter relating to Immingham and Grimsby deep-water docks.

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

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.

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.

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.

Reports and extracts by Monsieur J. J. Robin, Bordeaux, a representative of the coal owners in France, to the Commercial Committee and Agents, on the status of French exports of pitwood, 1939-1940. The reports and letters cease in May-June 1940 following the occupation of France by the Germans. Includes statements of expenses and related letters, 1945.

Administrative material relating to the supply of Portuguese pitwood props for South Wales collieries comprising mainly business correspondence, telegrams, circulars, extracts of Pitwood Sub-Committee minutes, and reports of visits to Portugal and meetings with Portuguese pitwood exporters.

Correspondence with members of the Pitwood Supplies Office and withTimber Control at the Ministry of Supply, 1944-1946; papers of Mr D. Badham, representative of the South Wales Colliery Owners, 1940-1946; and papers relating to a dispute over weighing charges at Newport Docks, 1940.

Correspondence and related material relating to the purchase of French pitwood, 1940-1945; the government loan (Pitwood Pool), 1940-1945; congestion on the railways and home-grown pitwood, 1940-1946; and prices and supplies of pitwood, 1944-1945, and other related issues. File also contains a small number of owners' returns on gains and losses-based railway rates.

Papers, primarily license applications, to import French pitwood in exchange for Welsh coal.

Receipt book for the purchase of pitwood. Also a loose folio, being an unused example of a transfer certificate of purchase of pitwood, in English and French.