| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/149 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">South Wales Colliery Managers and Officials Study</title> |
| Interview of Thomas, Thomas |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Thomas Thomas, Nantgarw. Includes early underground working practices of his career; relationships with workers when he entered management; differences of Abercarn pits; relationship with Her Majesty's Inspectors of mines and the National Union of Mineworkers; methods of mining, and payment; a National Coal Board scheme for Training Future Managers in 1950; social life in Newbridge; introducing mechanisation into the collieries; standards at Oakdale Colliery; methods of dust suppression; and the workforce and working methods at Big Pit and Cwmcarn</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Thomas</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Thomas & James</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Colliery Managers (Under) & Overmen (Assistant) & Dust Suppression Officer & Colliery Managers (Deputy) & Colliery Managers </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Partridge Jones and John Paten Company & National Coal Board & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Thin Seam Committee & Tredegar Iron and Coal Company & Blaenavon Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantgarw Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Taffs Well</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Big Pit</emph><emph altrender="county">Blaenavon</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Celynen North Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Newbridge</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmcarn Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cwmcarn</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Celynen South Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercarn</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercarn Prince of Wales Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercarn</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Britannia Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pengam</emph><emph altrender="parish">Blackwood</emph><emph altrender="township">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Oakdale Navigation Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Oakdale</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Area No 6</emph><emph altrender="county">South Wales</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Jesus College</emph><emph altrender="county">Cambridge</emph><emph altrender="parish">Cambridgeshire</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">manpower </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">ventilation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steam </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dust </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">training </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">dancing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cinemas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">power loading </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>National Power Loading Agreement 1966</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1942 = 1982 (c) |
| 6.2.1980 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
| Language | English |