REORGANISING BRITAIN'S COAL INDUSTRY
Received Thursdav, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, August 28. The production director for the National Coal Board, Mr. T. E. B. Young, is at prcsent discussing with representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers farreaching plans for the reorganisation and increased mechanisation of Britain 's coallields. The Coal Board has long term plans for sinking new pits and for the reequipment or existing mines which will eost between £150,000,000 and £200,000,000. These will take years to complete but the board is anxious to explain them to the nien and enlist their full eooperation. The conference is also discussing sliort term plans for immediately increasing production chieflv by improving the efficiency of the liaulage and transport systems. Lord Hvndlev told the Coal Board 's summer school at Cambridge that before the end of the year the tboard hoped to complete plans for increasing the efficiency in each of the 49 areas under tlie eontrol of the eight divisional boards. The reorganisation would include the provision of new equipment, grouping of pits and the introduction ot the latest eontinental methods of increasing production.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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183REORGANISING BRITAIN'S COAL INDUSTRY Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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