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Catalogue description Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers
| Reference: | POWE 22 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers |
| Description: |
Includes files concerned with administration and legislation, coal and mineral rights, finance, other fuels, labour relations, mechanization, metalliferous mining subsidence, drainage schemes and sterilization. These are records of the Board of Trade Coal Mines Department until 1920, then of the Mines Department until 1942, and thereafter of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Also contains a few records of the petroleum departments. |
| Date: | 1913-1968 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Trade, 1786-1970 Mines Department, 1920-1942 Ministry of Fuel and Power, Coal Division, 1942-1957 Ministry of Power, Coal Division, 1957-1969 |
| Physical description: | 264 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Publication note: |
Papers referred to in the following official histories will be found in POWE 17, POWE 18, POWE 19, POWE 20, POWE 21, POWE 22:Prof. W.H.B. Court, A History of Coal (HMSO, 1951)C.I. Savage, A History of Inland Transport (H.M.S.O.1957) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2) |
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