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Commercial Department files relating to the maintenance, repair, pooling and wartime requisitioning of colliery wagons. Material comprises letters and correspondence, circulars, reports, statistics, memoranda, extracts of committee minutes, and some technical specifications and drawings.

Correspondence, memoranda and circulars relating to repairs made to requisitioned wagons, schedule of charges, extensive repairs, and supplies of steel and timber.

Papers relating to double screening and insurance for Trimmers at South Wales ports, 1933-1936; charges for internal uses, 1941; and owners' responses to questionnaires regarding wagon-building facilities, 1941.

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

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.

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

Minutes of Proceedings, and statistical statements, submitted by the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association to the Court of Enquiry, relating to the wages position in the coal mining industry; Summary of 1915 standard rates paid to each class of Day Wagemen at each colliery, underground and surface, presented as evidence in the Court of Enquiry.

Correspondence, memoranda and printed items regarding the 1936 miners' wages campaign.

Material relating to new wages proposals for miners comprising calculations, summaries of price lists, wage statements, memoranda and working sheets regarding proposed wages.

Material relating to wage disputes dealt with by the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. Material includes meeting notices; strike notices; summaries of claims for compensation owing to loss of output during stoppages; particulars relating to stoppages at specific collieries; and correspondence and papers relating to Conciliation Board negotiations, appointments, and joint recommendations and resolutions.

Reports and printed material relating to the Strike of 1893, and the Mines (Eight Hours) Bill which includes an overview of the Bill, the petitions and deputations of the Mining Association of Great Britain, and evidence given by South Wales colliery owners before the Royal Commission on Labour, and extracts of Commission findings. Also, a volume about the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, which includes an historical overview of the formation of the Association and presents copies of key documents in the Association's history including deeds, Sliding Scale Committee agreements and details of disputes, documents relating to the General Strikes of 1871, 1873, 1875, 1879 and 1893, and large sections on Royal Commissions and Acts of Parliament relating to the coal industry.

Aberpergwm and Pwllfaron collieries, Glyn-Neath.

Minutes of evidence and appendices of the Departmental Committee on the use of Squibs for the purpose of firing shots in naked light mines.

Correspondence and printed matter relating to the establishment of a University Department of Mining at the Treforest School of Mines.

Published report of the Commission relating to the anthracite and bituminous coal industry of the United States (in 4 parts): principal findings and recommendations; detailed studies of the anthracite industry; detailed labour and engineering studies regarding the bituminous coal industry; and detailed studies of production costs, investment and profits relating to the bituminous coal industry.

Material relating to the Bill for Unification of Coal Royalties, under the Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act, 1937, including revisions of draft clauses of the Bill, comments on draft clauses, and brief records of 6 meetings of the Royalties Sub-Committee, May-July 1937. Material comprises correspondence, memoranda, circulars, minutes, and printed items.

Material relating to the Bill for Unification of Coal Royalties, under the Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act, 1937, including revisions of draft clauses of the Bill, comments on draft clauses, proposed amendments on compensation for subsidence, explanations and synopsis of provisions of the Bill, and statements on the position of mineral surveyors under the Bill. Material comprises correspondence, reports, statements, memoranda, circulars, notes, press statements and printed items.

Papers including circulars, agreements and details of payments and recipients, relating to payments to coal owners for their portion of the Pitwood Pool including Forestry Commission, Irish, and foreign-sourced pitwood.