Dangos 1510 canlyniad

Papers relating to the Joint Sub-committee of representatives, 1933-1937, and the Mining Association of Great Britain Sub-committee, 1939-1946. Material covers topics such as draw hooks and bars, wheels with cast iron bosses, G.R. plating and repairs, 1933-1938; standard metal-bodied 12-ton mineral wagons, 1934-1935, and the wagon census of 1937.

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.

Large group of papers on subjects including wear and tear allowance for income tax purposes, 1939; the provision of terminal facilities for 20-ton wagons at collieries, 1930-1933; terminal charges (1926 proceedings of the Railway Rates Tribunal); private siding agreement at Fernhill, including a copy of the 1912 Agreement, 1931-1932; damage caused to private wagons and injuries to repairers, 1930; papers of a test case regarding responsibility for payments for the renewal of points and crossings near colliery sidings, 1927-1931; the classification of goods; and the price of Welsh coal to the Swedish Naval Authority, 1930.

Papers comprising notices and drafts of forthcoming British Standards relating to picks, mattocks, screen analysis of coal, sampling of coal, mining type transformers, miners' lamp bulbs, tests for steam boilers, and other technical subjects. Also, revisions for standards and specifications including miners' lamp bulbs pump tests and test sieves. Includes the handbook of British Standards, 1942 and 1943, and monthly information sheets, September 1944-December 1946.

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 various aspects and methods of repairs made to requisitioned wagons including a schedule of charges, 1946; extensive repairs, 1943-1946; supplies of steel and timber, 1946; heavy repairs to category A and B wagons, 1945-1946; and wagons unfit for certain classes of traffic, which includes some minutes of the Technical and Accountants' Sub-Committees, 1939-1945.

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.

Correspondence and copies of minutes.

Correspondence, extracts of minutes and copies of legal submissions relating to the 5% rebate for 20-ton wagons, 1936-1943; Severn Bridge Bill, 1936; shipping weights statistics, 1934-1935; and the South Wales Coal Contract, 1935.

Statistics and extracts of minutes mainly relating to a 10%, 6 2/3% increases in railway rates, 1940; and increase of 8 1/3%, 1946.

Papers include the Great Western Railway Act 1931, Dock Charges; railway freight rebates, 1937; the scales of rebates, 1936-1939; de-rating rebate in tipping and weighing charges, 1936-1937; de-rating relief on coal for the Admiralty, 1940-1941; and the docks de-rating rebate, as of 1 October 1930, 1930-1931.

Subjects include the exchange of French pitwood for Welsh coals, and applications for licences for the importation of coal to France.

Material relating to rates charged for the return of owners' coal wagons, comprising letters, memoranda, and printed schedules.

Papers relating to the agreements to exchange coal in return for pitwood, including the distribution of pitwood to collieries, July to September 1934-1935; the uptake of allocations, 1935-1937; reduced imports from Portugal, 1935; general correspondence regarding pitwood for coals, 1935; and transfer certificates, 1934.

Papers relating to breakages of coal during transportation, particularly during the loading and unloading of coal; machinery and practices available to help minimise losses resulting from coal breakage. Material comprises memoranda, letters and correspondence.

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.