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Commercial Department files relating to various issues and practices in the coal and transportation industries which affected the Coal Owners Association's interests. Much of the material concerns the transportation of coal by rail and by ship, and the export, import, mechanical and labour issues associated with it. Files may include letters and correspondence, circulars, committee minutes and reports, statistics, and material relating to government rules and regulations.

Papers relating to the supply of coal and imports of pitwood, including Portuguese pitwood, 1930-1941, coal for Italian state railways, 1933-1935, and imports and payments for coal to Italy, 1933-1940.

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.

Papers of the South Wales Coal Shipment Advisory Committee, 1934-1944, and the Ministry of Transport Port Emergency Committee, 1940. Subjects discussed mainly concern the removal of ships' beams and the return of damaged wagons. The file also includes a printed biography of T. Thomas, King's medallist, and a pictorial record of his model colliery (1933).

Papers relating to the hours of duty and wages for Tippers and Trimmers, in particular the arrangements for working during wartime conditions and on public holidays. Material comprises letters, correspondence, memoranda, printed items, and extracts of minutes of the South Wales Area Trimming Board.

Papers relating to the Anglo-Spanish Payments Agreement, 1935-1937 and 1945, trade discussions with Egypt, 1935, and the War Risk Insurance Act, 1939. Material comprises letters, correspondence and memoranda.

Papers of the Combustion Appliance Makers Association, 1935-1944, and the National Gas Council, 1935. Also material relating to the price of coal, including Belgian coal, 1934-1937; and Great Western Railway walking permits, 1934-1936.

Memoranda, letters and correspondence relating to the use and supply of coal, including contributions by merchants, 1934-1936; Welsh coal supply to laundries in London and the Home Counties, 1936; the Marine Fuel Committee, 1936-1938; the supply of coal to Ireland, 1935; the National Coal Convention, 1938; and some general correspondence, 1933-1944.

Letters and correspondence, 1933-1937, including extracts of Commercial and Transport Committee minutes, regarding conveyance rates for coal dust and pulverised fuel. Correspondents include the Mining Association of Great Britain, Insoles Ltd., Edmund L. Hann, Tredegar Co., Great Western Railway, the Coal Utilisation Council, and the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company. The file also contains several reports on the marketing of pulverised fuel, and industrial use of this type of fuel in Great Britain.

Collated figures, mainly 1921-1925, showing exceptional rates for short distance powers, traffic tonnage, dock charges, classification of merchandise, and weekly output of coal, [c.1926]. Also Included are summary statistical returns, 1940-1946.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.