Aberfan Disaster Archive
Dowlais Collection Class F

National Coal Board Material

 F/001

NCB documents used by tribunal. Original Bundle

Split into 3 folders

F/001/01 Title: National Coal Board - South Western Division - Area no.4

1/1/57 - 21/9/64

Type: TS

Pages: 32

3 Letters to different NCB officials clarifying their duties as Colliery Managers.
Officials covered: Colliery Manager, Group Manager, Group Mechanical Engineer, Area Chief Mechanical Engineer, Area Civil Engineer, Area General Manager, Area Production Manager, Divisional Chief Civil Engineer, Production Director

F/001/02 Title: Procedure for ensuring stability & management control of spoil tips

nd, post-disaster

Type: TS

Pages: 4

(Draft)

F/001/03 Title: Aberfan Tip Disaster - Merthyr Vale Colliery

nd

Type: TS

Pages: 5

Technical notes on history of coal preparation, present plant, heavy medium section, small coal washing section, definition of slurry, froth floatation of coal, reagents, frothing agents, collecting agents, rotary vacuum filtration, tailings, marketable products

F/001/04 Title: South Wales Coalfield - Regional Survey Report

1946

Type: TS

Pages: 2

Extract (Surface subsidence & disposal of colliery refuse) from HMSO publication

F/001/05 Title: Report of the Advisory Committee on Organisation

February 1955

Type: TS

Pages: 107

NCB book, photocopy

F/001/06 Title: National Coal Board (South Western Division) Organisational Charts

2/11/66

Type: TS
7 charts

Original bundle with name and chart title index

2 copies, 1 annotated by Hywel ap Roberts, MTBC counsel

F/001/07 Title: Coal Mining - Report of the Technical Advisory Committee

March 1945

Type: TS
Pages: 2

Extract ( Refuse disposal) from Ministry of Fuel & Power publication (HMSO)

F/002

Material originating with (or connected to) the NCB and used by the Tribunal. Original folder

F/002/01 Title: To all Divisional Chairmen and heads of Departments at Headquarters

1955

Type: TS
Pages: 8

NCB General Directive on organisation & responsibilities

F/002/02 Minutes of the 16th Conference of Production Directors held in room 16, Hobart House on Tuesday, 17th January 1967 at 2.30 pm

Type: TS
Pages: 8

Much on spoil heaps
Includes annotations by Alun Talfan Davies (MTBC counsel)

F/002/03 west Wales areas Procedure for technical and operational control over spoil tips in the east and

Type: TS

Pages: 5
nd
Includes many annotations by Alun Talfan Davies (MTBC Counsel) and ?

F/002/04 Merthyr Express Cutting

7/11/1931

Type: TS

Pages: 1

re flood damage at Pantglas Rd, Aberfan

F/002/05 Transcript of an interview between Vincent Kane and Larry Ryan, which was broadcast on "Good Morning Wales!" on Saturday, 22nd October 1966

Type: TS
Pages: 3
22/10/66

re tip removal and stability

Includes underlinings by Alun Talfan Davies, MTBC Counsel

F/002/06 Title: National Coal Board, South Western Division, Area 4 - Tips in Area 4

22/2/67

Type: TS
Pages: 2

Information in response to questions raised by Lord Justice Edmund Davies at the Aberfan tribunal on the 21st February, 1967

F/002/07 Title: Divisional Headquarters

c.1956 - present

Type: TS
Pages: 3

List of NCB officials in South Wales

Includes qualifications and former officials

F/002/08 Title: Accounts rendered on NCB

10/1951 - 22/4/66

Type: MS
Pages: 1

re work at Pantglas

2 copies

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