Catalogue description Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence and Papers

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Details of POWE 18
Reference: POWE 18
Title: Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files relating to Local Fuel Overseers, rationing, distribution and control of supplies and miners' concessionary coal. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.

Date: 1939-1958
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
Creator:

Mines Department, 1920-1942

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

Physical description: 64 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Unpublished finding aids:

A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2)

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