Trimming committees

This material is held atGlamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg

Reference
- GB 214 DCOMC/20
Dates of Creation
- 1904-1926
Name of Creator
- Coal Shippers Trimming Committee
  Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Trimming Board
Physical Description
- 5 folders, 5 volumes

Scope and Content

Coal Shippers Trimming Committee 1904-1912; agenda book of joint meeting, trimming revision (blank) 1904-1926; notice of Newport Trimming Tariff 1908; minute book of Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Trimming Board (signatories of the Trimming Tariff) 28 Aug 1913-8 Apr 1915; printed tariff for dock, pilots, boatmen and riggers of Cardiff, Penarth and Barry 10 Dec 1921; minutes of a court of investigation into differences regarding the National Coal Trimming Tariff 5-20 Oct 1926

[Former reference: DCOMC/8/1-3]

Administrative / Biographical History

Trimmers were responsible for the safe stowage of coal cargoes in the ships hold. In 1890 a trimmers board was established to reconcile difference between the trimmers, shippers and shipowners. Negotions over trimming tariffs went on from 1901, before a jointly agreed tariff was produced in 1907

Archive Record|Table of contents

Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce RecordsDCOMC

Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of CommerceDCOMC/1

Cardiff and Bristol Associated Incorporated Shipowners' AssociationDCOMC/2

Cardiff Institute of Shipbrokers (Incorporated)DCOMC/3

Bristol Channel District Association of Chartered ShipbrokersDCOMC/4

British Channel Branch of Institute of Shipping and Forwarding AgentsDCOMC/5

Cardiff Port Development AssociationDCOMC/6

The Shipping Federation, Cardiff DistrictDCOMC/7

South Wales Coal Exporters AssociationDCOMC/8

Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood Importers AssociationDCOMC/9

South Wales Coal Shipment Advisory CommitteeDCOMC/10

Bristol Channel Mining Timber AssociationDCOMC/11

Chartered Institute of SecretariesDCOMC/12

Incorporated South Wales and Monmouthshire Coal Freighters AssociationDCOMC/13

Home Consumption Coal Sales Committee for Monmouthshire and South WalesDCOMC/14

Coal and Shipping Exchange (Cardiff) LimitedDCOMC/15

Central Executive Committee of Great Britain and Cardiff Local Committee for Supply of Coal to France and ItalyDCOMC/16

Patent Fuel Manufacturers AssociationDCOMC/17

Cardiff and Bristol Channel Ship Store Merchants AssociationDCOMC/18

Employers Clearing House (Cardiff)DCOMC/19

Trimming committeesDCOMC/20

Business Statistics Publishing Company LimitedDCOMC/21

Joseph Davies and HaileyDCOMC/22

Andrews, Davies and Dupont LimitedDCOMC/23

London and South Wales Engineering and Ship Repairing Company (1897) LimitedDCOMC/24

Joseph Davies' papers: railway and other business interestsDCOMC/25

Joseph Davies' papers: Wilson estateDCOMC/26

Andrew Philip Barnett's papersDCOMC/27

News cuttingsDCOMC/28

Maps and plansDCOMC/29

PhotographsDCOMC/30

Miscellaneous itemsDCOMC/31