The file comprises papers relating to Allied Steel and Wire, Cardiff, the failure of the company and loss of pensions to staff along with the subsequent campaign for reform to employers' pension schemes.

The file consists of discussion papers, memoranda and circulars concerning the evolution of Labour Party policies on pensions, retirement etc.

The file is made up of printed items, press cuttings and typescript circulars concerning retirement pensions, national insurance and pension provision for widows.

Relate to the proposal that retirement pensions and other benefits be paid directly into the bank accounts of recipients rather than at local and sub post offices.

Correspondence, 1937, relating to an application for a pension by Mrs M. A. Jones of Rhosllanerchrugog.

A composite volume containing precedents in the form of copies of grants, letters patent, warrants, etc., Elizabeth-Charles II, relating to bishoprics, deaneries, officers of the royal household, etc. (e.g. congé d'elire, letter recommendatory to elect a bishop, oath of allegiance for a bishop's homage, instalment of first fruits of a bishopric, commendams, presentations, grants to royal musicians, grants of annuities and pensions, grants of offices, baronet's patent, dispensations, directions from the signet, indentures, etc., etc.); a brief account, in French, of the Portuguese revolution of 1 December, 1640; a report, in reply to a questionnaire, on the length, depth, security, etc., of His Majesty's mole at Tangier, written on board H.M.S. the Mountagne, 13 October, 1683; pedigrees of the royal house of Portugal; forms of addresses used by the King to his subjects; styles of noblemen and otehrs; lists of cathedral churches and of their prebends; dedications of cathedral churches, etc.