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Volume of papers and reports 1907-1954

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Papers on the smoke abatement movement, collected into a file:
"Air Pollution: Bishop Calls for Action', press cutting from the Sheffield Telegraph, 18 October 1954
"Parliamentary and Scientific Committee: Interim Report on Coal Utilisation", c1947
Papers relating to 'Coalite' including extracts from reports relating to 'Coalite', details of shares in the British Coalite Company Ltd, c1907
"Notes on Low Temperature Carbonisation" by Arnold Marsh, M.Sc.Tech., M.Inst.F., General Secretary, National Smoke Abatement Society, April 1935
"The Practical Ignition of Coal on a Travelling Grate Stoker" by C M Cooper, December 1945
"Report of the Departmental Committee on Area Gas Supply", 1930

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Volume of papers and reports 1907-1954

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