The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the... 15 KB (1,608 words) - 19:36, 18 March 2024 |
Edwards v. National Coal Board was an important case in English case law. The 1949 case revolved around whether it was "reasonably practicable" to prevent... 3 KB (351 words) - 06:15, 16 April 2022 |
Ian MacGregor (section National Coal Board) his conduct during the 1984–85 miners' strike while managing the National Coal Board. MacGregor was born in Kinlochleven, Scotland. His parents were Daniel... 18 KB (2,071 words) - 12:51, 14 March 2024 |
The National Coal Board Labour Staff Association (LSA) was a trade union representing workers at the National Coal Board in the United Kingdom. The National... 2 KB (233 words) - 02:56, 17 February 2022 |
GWR 5700 Class (section National Coal Board) continued in use until 1971 by the London Transport and 1975 by the National Coal Board. le Fleming noted that the mileages of those withdrawn between March... 110 KB (7,870 words) - 19:24, 4 April 2024 |
Giesl ejector (section National Coal Board) a Giesl ejector, but with "indifferent" results. The National Coal Board had a vast array of coal mines all around the UK and therefore employed a massive... 8 KB (906 words) - 22:35, 25 April 2023 |
E. F. Schumacher (section Adviser to the Coal Board) technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development... 31 KB (3,467 words) - 22:55, 22 April 2024 |
McGhee v National Coal Board [1972] UKHL 7, 1 W.L.R. 1, is a leading tort case decided by the House of Lords. The Lords held that where a breach of duty... 5 KB (632 words) - 07:19, 16 April 2023 |
Aberfan disaster (category Coal mining disasters in Wales) School and a row of houses. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster... 90 KB (11,174 words) - 00:45, 2 April 2024 |
under the Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21) to manage some functions, in which the British Coal Corporation (formerly the National Coal Board) had previously... 13 KB (1,298 words) - 11:23, 23 April 2024 |
Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham (redirect from Old King Coal) were diverted into industry: he spent 10 years as Chairman of the National Coal Board, and later – despite the Aberfan disaster – headed a major inquiry... 27 KB (2,934 words) - 19:03, 11 August 2023 |
Briquette (redirect from Coal briquette) General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 November 2019... 18 KB (2,071 words) - 20:47, 16 April 2024 |
Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine... 28 KB (3,153 words) - 08:04, 17 April 2024 |
1972 United Kingdom miners' strike (category National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)) 1950s and the coal industry began to suffer from increasing losses. In 1960 Alf Robens became the chairman of the National Coal Board (NCB), and he introduced... 16 KB (1,699 words) - 16:13, 12 February 2024 |
broken its own democratic rules in calling the strike. The National Coal Board (by then British Coal), was privatised by selling off a large number of pits... 81 KB (10,734 words) - 17:07, 4 April 2024 |
Bowesfield Works (section National Coal Board) (914 mm) gauge, battery powered under ground mining locomotives for the National Coal Board during 1959. The last locomotives built at the works was a batch... 5 KB (649 words) - 21:30, 11 September 2023 |
George Dunning (category National Film Board of Canada people) TVC's other 'bread-and-butter' work was training films for the National Coal Board, for which he created the memorable characters Thud and Blunder.... 33 KB (3,055 words) - 16:29, 27 February 2024 |
Aberfan Disaster Tribunal (category Coal mining disasters in Wales) report of the tribunal placed the blame for the disaster on the National Coal Board (NCB), naming nine of its staff as having some degree of responsibility... 22 KB (2,764 words) - 14:32, 6 March 2024 |
has been enshrined in the UK case law since the case of Edwards v. National Coal Board in 1949. The ruling was that the risk must be significant in relation... 16 KB (1,860 words) - 16:56, 18 March 2024 |
to enable coal to be transported from Lambton Collieries to the Port of Sunderland. It closed under the ownership of the National Coal Board in August... 9 KB (880 words) - 11:42, 26 January 2024 |
see Sailing in Anguilla Warspite (locomotive), #8 engine for the National Coal Board, s/n 3776, see List of preserved Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotives... 669 bytes (120 words) - 16:45, 2 September 2021 |
Clipstone Colliery (category Coal mines in Nottinghamshire) It was built by the Bolsover Colliery Company, transferred to the National Coal Board in 1947, then operated by RJB Mining from 1994. The headstocks and... 7 KB (693 words) - 18:37, 24 January 2024 |
1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike (category National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)) Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the... 174 KB (18,803 words) - 17:32, 29 April 2024 |
Cry of the Banshee (1970). Geeson's father was an editor for the National Coal Board magazine while her mother worked in the box office at the London... 7 KB (687 words) - 15:11, 24 April 2024 |
Water Board. Lambton Collieries — was a coal mining company from 1896 to 1947. Headquartered in County Durham, it became part of the National Coal Board. Land... 195 KB (26,155 words) - 23:20, 15 April 2024 |