Catalogue description Mines Department and Successors: Coal Division: House Coal: Correspondence and Papers

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Details of POWE 19
Reference: POWE 19
Title: Mines Department and Successors: Coal Division: House Coal: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files relating to the rationing, stockpiling, distribution and decontrol of house coal. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.

Date: 1940-1970
Related material:

For further records on coal control see Division within POWE

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 92 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Unpublished finding aids:

A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2)

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