Catalogue description Mines Department and Successor: Coal Division: Emergency Services, Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: POWE 17
Title: Mines Department and Successor: Coal Division: Emergency Services, Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files relating to the price, control, supply, demand and distribution of coal, coke, anthracite, etc, during the Second World War and up to the end of rationing in 1958. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.

Date: 1937-1965
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

Physical description: 101 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Unpublished finding aids:

A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2)

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