Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., relating to the promotion of, and proposed extensions of, the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway; the Portmadoc, Beddgelert, and South Snowdon Railway; and the Portmadoc, Beddgelert, Dinas, and Caernarfon Narrow Gauge Railways.
Letters, valuations, plans and agreements, relating to land in p. Ffestiniog, required for the Ffestiniog and Blaenau railway from the Diphwys Casson Slate Company.
Reconstruction of Tanygarth tramway,
Letters, invoices, etc., relating to the re-laying of the Tanygarth Branch Line. Companies involved with the construction include Wilsons Pease & Co., Middlesbrough, Evan Jones & Co., Cardiff, Ebbw Vale Steel, Coal & Iron Co. Ltd., J. O. Hughes, Portmadoc, and Burt, Boulton & Haywood, Ltd, Newport.
Register of officials, shareholders and share dealings,
Indexed.
Report of the Royal Commission on the operation of the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act,
Report of the Royal Commission on the operation of the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881, with papers relating thereto, 1889-90, including copies of letters from Jonathan Davies to the secretary of the commission, and printed forms of petition issued by Cymdeithas Ddirwestol Meirion and Cymanfa Ddirwestol Gwynedd, the latter under the name of D. R. Daniel, Fourcrosses.
Report of visit to Frankfurt to meet German slate merchants,
Report on a visit to Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany,
Report on a visit to French and Belgian slate quarries,
Rhestr o Fythynod Adfeiliedig Ardal Nant Gwynant,
Composition comprising a brief history of the ruined cottages of the vale of Nant Gwynant, by Ceri Owen.
Rule book of the National Association of Slate Merchants and Slaters,
Share certificate of Robert Roberts, Tan-y-marian, Blaenau Ffestiniog,
An appendix records the transfer of the share to his son Robert R. Roberts of Newborough.
Slate account and production book,
Minutes of a Slate Conference, 5 April 1940, at Abbey House, Westminster, to discuss the position of the UK slate industry. Includes related letters.
Letters and copy minutes of an emergency meeting of the Association, 1912, to discuss opening a slate trade with Canada. Includes a report on possible business ties following a tour of Canada by E. Andrews, with list of Canadian merchants and architects.
Copy letter to the Association, from Richard Bowton, and copy of a report of a meeting with Irish local officials concerning the use of French slate ahead of the approved Portmadoc slates, for use in Ireland under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts 1883 to 1906.
Slate prices, 1872, 1891, 1893, 1902-1904. Includes an undated card from the Suzerne Slate Quarrying and manufacturing company, Slatinton, Pennsylvania.
Price quotation for second or third size slates on quarry bank.