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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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.