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National Coal Board: Directorate of Scientific Control: Registered Files and Reports
Catalogue reference: COAL 85
What's it about?
COAL 85
This series contains correspondence, reports and other papers from the Directorate of Scientific Control on the whole range of National Coal Board scientific work.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- COAL 85
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Directorate of Scientific Control: Registered Files and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence, reports and other papers from the Directorate of Scientific Control on the whole range of National Coal Board scientific work.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
This series has been organised in former file reference order, where they exist, and in chronological order, by accession.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- National Coal Board, Directorate of Scientific Control, 1946-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 249 files, photographs and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 British Coal Corporation
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Scientific Directorate was set up soon after nationalisation. Its chief roles were to check the quality of coal and ensure that statutory health and safety regulations were complied with in all collieries. It was also provided with funding to undertake research and development work in the field when appropriate, rather than such work being passed to central research establishments, and investigated matters such as the outbreak of underground fires and high noise levels in mines. It operated from over 100 laboratories in all coalfields throughout the country. It became a regionalised service in the 1980s, with a small headquarters staff, and was merged into the Technical Department in 1987.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5333/
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National Coal Board: Directorate of Scientific Control: Registered Files and Reports
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