Catalogue description National Coal Board and predecessors: Coal Products Division and predecessors: Records

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Title: National Coal Board and predecessors: Coal Products Division and predecessors: Records
Description:

This series consists of records of the National Coal Board (Coal Products Ltd) and its predecessors relating to the management of coal processing and comprising minutes, correspondence and reports relating to all aspects of the division's work.
Date: 1903-1984
Arrangement:

This series is arranged in former file reference order and chronological order, under separate sub-headings.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

National Coal Board, Coal Products Division, 1963-1973

National Coal Board, NCB (Coal Products Ltd.), 1973-1987
Physical description: 121 files and photographs
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1998 British Coal Corporation
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Coal Products division was created in 1963 to operate the National Coal Board's coking, manufactured fuel, by-product and chemical works, and to oversee the board's interests in associated chemical companies and its participation in searching for and exploiting offshore resources of oil and natural gas. The National Coal Board (Additional Powers) Act 1966 gave the board express powers in this function. In 1973 the division was formed into NCB (Coal Products) Ltd.

NCB (Coal Products) Ltd was set up in 1973 from the Coal Products Division. It was given control of NCB (Exploration) Ltd, established in 1967, a wholly-owned subsidiary company, but in 1976 under the Petroleum and Submarine Pipelines Act 1975, the company was transferred to BNOC. NCB (Coal Products) Ltd was also the holding company for Thomas Ness Ltd, National Smokeless Fuels Ltd, and NCB (Hydrocarbons) Ltd. The group also included the board's part interests in subsidiary and associated companies in the coal products field.

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