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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.

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 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.

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.

South Wales Shipment Advisory Committee papers, 1929-1934, and material relating to the South Wales Trimming Board, and patented coal hoists and other devices, 1931-1933. Also reports on coal-loading plant at shipping ports (anti-breakage appliances) commissioned by the Clyde Navigation Trust, 1931.

Material relating to the coal and bunker trade, in particular transport and shipping charges and procedural concerns regarding the loading of coal onto vessels. Material comprises mainly reports, letters and correspondence.

Papers relating to the use of oil for railway engines and discussions concerning the South Wales Electric Power Bill, 1932. The file also includes material regarding liability for claims for accidents caused by defects in wagons, average wagon loads, the closure of Penarth Dock, and railway rates from Glenrhondda Colliery to a Swansea ice factory, and papers regarding the appointment of members to the Commercial Committee.

Material relating to the work of the South Wales Trimming Board, 1933; coal-tipping appliances, 1944; Roath Dock conveyors, 1932-1934; the revision of proposed regulation of railways, 1933; pooling agreements, 1932-1933; and imports of pit timber from Brazil and Australia, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.