Catalogue description Mines Department and Successors: War Book and Associated Matters: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: POWE 21
Title: Mines Department and Successors: War Book and Associated Matters: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files relating to the control of supplies of coal and coal products during the Second World War and later, including correspondence with Divisional Coal Offices and circulars of Divisional Coal Officers and Coal Supplies Officers. Until 1942 they are records of the Mines Department.

Date: 1936-1960
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Mines Department, 1920-1942

Ministry of Fuel and Power, Coal Division, 1942-1957

Ministry of Power, Coal Division, 1957-1969

Physical description: 90 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Unpublished finding aids:

A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2)

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