Correspondence concerning repairs needed following an inspection of Brithdir pit

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File no: 184/20

[Former reference: DRH/233]

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Records of Powell Duffryn LimitedDPD

Powell Duffryn Limited (formerly Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Limited)DPD/1

Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company LimitedDPD/2

Corporate and shareholdingDPD/2/1

FinanceDPD/2/2

Property and premisesDPD/2/3

StaffDPD/2/4

Agents department for the Rhymney Valley collieriesDPD/2/5

Correspondence of N Phillips, A-ZDPD/2/5/1

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1920DPD/2/5/2

Letters from W J Jones, engineer at Elliot Offices, with summary reports of tests on boiler at New Tredegar CollieryDPD/2/5/2/1

Letters from William B Davies from Elliot Offices, and a solicitor, concerning 'trafficking' of small coal in New Tredegar area amongst domestic consumersDPD/2/5/2/2

Correspondence concerning managers and under managers, their stand-ins during absence, and those that have been certifiedDPD/2/5/2/3

Correspondence regarding the possibility of letting land at Turyberth and other estate issuesDPD/2/5/2/4

Applications for employmentDPD/2/5/2/5

Correspondence with Edmund Mills Hann including plans concerning level of water in the Plass pitsDPD/2/5/2/6

Correspondence concerning drawing up of surveyor plans for various areasDPD/2/5/2/7

Copy of accounts from East Glamorgan Agricultural Society and Hengoed United Football Club, to Douglas A Hann who makes donationDPD/2/5/2/8

Copy letter to A Moore, manager of Penallta Colliery, allowing him to blow a hooter at 6.50 in the morning, and to stop giving lamps, for a month's trial onlyDPD/2/5/2/9

Copies of memos and agendas of the South Wales Institute of EngineersDPD/2/5/2/10

Papers concerning trespassers on Powell Duffryn sidings and Rhymney Railway LineDPD/2/5/2/11

Tenders from companies supplying safety lamps, including test description and results of the 'Oldham'Miners Electric Head LampDPD/2/5/2/12

Copy letter to Walter Lewis, Miners Office, Bargoed. The agent is unable to allow the Brithdir men to have half hour off at beginning or end of each shift to hear an address on Pit Head BathsDPD/2/5/2/13

Letters from sick employees, and related correspondence regarding absence/pension etcDPD/2/5/2/14

Letter from Edmund Lawrence Hann enclosing instructions to surveying departmentsDPD/2/5/2/15

Letter from Edmund Lawrence Hann complaining about the increase in consumption of compressed air at Britannia, he would like the matter looked intoDPD/2/5/2/16

Correspondence concerning complaint from the resident engineer of the Mining Engineer Company about treatment during testing of their conveyor enginesDPD/2/5/2/17

Correspondence regarding the fence repairs at Elliot and New TredegarDPD/2/5/2/18

Copy letter from Douglas A Hann to E W Jones, not allowing him to use the ambulance car to take Mrs Sloggett to Cardiff Hospital, but allowing him the use of a colliery stretcherDPD/2/5/2/19

Correspondence concerning repairs needed following an inspection of Brithdir pitDPD/2/5/2/20

Correspondence concerning regarding repairs at pitDPD/2/5/2/21

Correspondence concerning inspection of house coal screens and Elliot Pit weighing machineDPD/2/5/2/22

Correspondence concerning workers seeking compensation for loss of tools at Elliot and Brittania CollieryDPD/2/5/2/23

Correspondence concerning price lists for Bargoed and Elliot collieryDPD/2/5/2/24

Correspondence concerning electrical stoppagesDPD/2/5/2/25

Letter from Idwal Thomas, No 7 Lodge, South Wales Miners Federation, and reply, concerning an error made in the charge for compensation coal to George MeredithDPD/2/5/2/26

Letter from Thomas Newman to Douglas A Hann, and reply, regarding the possibility of being provided with a ticket for Porthcawl RestDPD/2/5/2/27

Notices and letters from associations (association of Mining Electrical Engineers and South Wales Under Managers and Overmans Association), invitations etcDPD/2/5/2/28

EmptyDPD/2/5/2/29

Correspondence concerning master hauliers at Bargoed and Elliot e.g. wages and working conditionsDPD/2/5/2/30

Papers concerning lorries: numbers of at various collieries, tenders, orders and deliveriesDPD/2/5/2/31

Copy letter from Douglas A Hann to Edmund Lawrence Hann asking for the installation of a telephone into new house coal yard at PengamDPD/2/5/2/32

Correspondence concerning the supply of house coal (complaints about tipping, selling etc)DPD/2/5/2/33

Notices and correspondence concerning government grants for approved housesDPD/2/5/2/34

Request from William Reginald Hann, commercial manager, to Douglas A Hann regarding working hoursDPD/2/5/2/35

Memorandum from The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association regarding arrangements for decentralisation of distributionDPD/2/5/2/36

Correspondence concerning unemployment insurance act and memorandum concerning changes to National Health Insurance Act 1920DPD/2/5/2/37

Correspondence concerning war wagesDPD/2/5/2/38

Contains a note about the previous contents of the file: did contain correspondence with G I Davies re Ystrad Mynach Hall and was forwarded to directors for applicationDPD/2/5/2/39

Correspondence concerning an investigation into a fatal incident at Penallta Colliery and a possible breach of Coal Mines RegulationsDPD/2/5/2/40

Miscellaneous correspondenceDPD/2/5/2/41

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1923DPD/2/5/3

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1924DPD/2/5/4

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1924DPD/2/5/5

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1926DPD/2/5/6

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1927-1930DPD/2/5/7

Correspondence, orders and other papers for 1930-1938DPD/2/5/8

Ivor Williams' papers as chief engineer for the Rhymney Valley collieries, works and power stationsDPD/2/6

Correspondence and papers of managers of Bargoed coke ovens laboratoryDPD/2/7

Correspondence and papers of Joseph West, managerDPD/2/8

Records of research departmentDPD/2/9

Welsh Associated Collieries LimitedDPD/3

Records of acquired companies and subsidiariesDPD/4

Housing societiesDPD/5