National Coal Board information

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...

his conduct during the 1984–85 miners' strike while managing the National Coal Board. MacGregor was born in Kinlochleven, Scotland. His parents were Daniel...

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...

predecessor, the National Coal Board (NCB). The Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3) changed the name of the National Coal Board (NCB) to the British Coal Corporation...

control, the coal industry in the United Kingdom. It established the National Coal Board as the managing authority for coal mining and coal processing activities...

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 le Fleming noted that the mileages of those withdrawn between March...

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...

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...

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...

Underground) Act 1900 National Coal Board Three-Day Week Coal Mines (Emergency) Act 1920 List of coal mines in the United Kingdom List of active coal-fired power...

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...

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...

General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 November 2019...

Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine...

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...

Sunderland. In the late 1950s, (Under the ownership of the National Coal Board (NCB)) the Durham Coal field was being wound down, and a further spate of closures...

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...

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...

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....

(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...

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...

Powering Past Coal Alliance, furthering its goal of becoming a zero carbon electricity system by 2025. At the time of its announcement, National Grid was the...

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...

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...

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...