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Correspondence and statistics relating to repairs and the requisitioning and pooling of wagons.

Papers relating to demurrage charges, regulations and system of control of colliery wagons, 1939-1941; the pooling of wagons during wartime, 1940-1943; compensation due to Government requisitioning of privately-owned wagons, 1940-1946; and congestion of transport, 1939-1940.

Material relating to wagons damaged by enemy action, 1940-1942; and extraneous charges on unsuitable wagons, 1939-1940.

Correspondence, copies of minutes and related material, 1939-1940. Includes a report of the Railway Pool Committee, 1932.

Papers on various subjects, including hire charges for short-distance haulage, 1940-1941; railway wagon sheets, 1940; pre-payment of railway carriage charges, 1940-1946; exemption of privately-owned wagons from requisitioning, 1939-1946; scale of charges, 1928-1937; supply of second-hand wheels, 1940; and various agreements with hiring companies, 1940-1941.

Papers relating to damage to shipping appliances, 1943-1944; the use of unsuitable material in ballast, 1939-1945; the labelling of wagons, 1941-1944; charges for wagons with coal awaiting shipment, 1941-1942; the War Transport Council, 1941; and insurance under the War Damage Bill, 1940-1944. Includes a copy of the War Damage Bill, 1940, and War Damage Act, 1941.

Papers relating to the repair of requisitioned wagons including extensive repairs to wagons and de-requisitioning, 1944-1946; pooling of privately-owned wagons, 1942; collieries owning requisitioned wagons, 1942-1943; and patch repairs and defective wagons, 1942-1947.

Material relating to the G. R. plating of wagons, comprising correspondence, extracts of minutes, and circulars.

A collection of papers on various subjects including the extensive repairs to requisitioned private owner wagons, 1940; wagon hire agreements, 1940; G. R. plating and repainting of wagons, 1940; patch repairs, 1945; the movement of coal into barges at waterside places within the metropolitan area, 1933-1944; the distribution of wagons, 1939-1940; and papers of the Wagon Pooling Advisory Committee and the Transport Committee regarding the supply of empty wagons, 1939-1940.

Details of collieries owning requisitioned wagons, 1942, the oiling and greasing of requisitioned wagons, 1939, and repair contracts, 1939.

Material relating to the maintenance, repair, and railway conveyance rates of 20-ton mineral wagons comprising letters and correspondence, reports, notes, news cuttings, statistics, specifications and drawings. Also, copies of minutes of meetings of the Joint Sub-committee of Representatives of the Railway Companies' Chief Mechanical Engineers and of the Private Wagon Owners' Associations in which specific technical subjects such as axle-box bearings, side-doors, draw-gear, draw-hooks and bars, bearing spring shoes for wood-frame wagons, starring of tank wagons, lubricating pads and matters relating to the rebuilding of damaged private owners' wagons were discussed.

Papers include returns regarding extensive repairs to wagons, 1940-1943; patch repairs of requisitioned wagons, 1944; numbers of requisitioned wagons owned by the company and associated colliery companies, 1945; a proposed increase of 5% in railway rates, and owners' questionnaire returns, 1937.

Forms showing details of the average number of wagons on temporary hire or owned by the colliery companies, also, the number of hired wagons on period hire and the average number of buyers' wagons loaded daily.

Lists of private owners' wagons exempted from the requisitioning order of the Ministry of Transport.

Returns, statistics and some letters relating to wagon entitlement under the draft 'System of Control' scheme.

Correspondence and statistics of collieries with facilities for receiving wood by lorry and weighbridges, 1940, and replies from owners of collieries that are able to weigh inward traffic, 1943.

Particulars of wagons owned and general repair plates.

Administrative files relating to rates charged for the transport of coal by rail and by sea. The files may include letters, correspondence, statistics, reports, and some printed items.

Papers, mainly 1935, relating to transport costs and tipping and weighing charges at South Wales ports.

Extracts of minutes of the Commercial Committee, 1933-1935. Also, papers relating to the Swansea District Board appointment of a consulting engineer to examine shipping appliances, 1931-1932; digging and poking out charges at Cardiff and Swansea, 1928-1933; and anti-breakage and digging out appliances, 1931-1933.