File 1 - "National Coal Board"

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Comprises correspondence, press cuttings and reports mainly relating to Bronowski's role as consultant for the National Coal Board (NCB) from 1963-1969. Includes correspondence with Tom Nicole, Arthur Wynn, Sir Humphrey Browne (Deputy Chairman) and Roy B Sims, all of NCB, on: developments in char briquetting and smokeless fuels, plants at Coventry, Birch Coppice and Markham, and Bronowski's consultancy visits in Nov-Dec 1964, June and Dec 1965.

Also contains: reports by Bronowski on 'Wear in Briquetting Tools' (5 May 1964), 'Heating the Fluid Bed' (15 Jan 1965) and 'Use of by-products from the Char Process' (6 Jul 1965); memos by others and reports of meetings; later memos on statements given to the press about smokeless fuels (1967); a letter from Eric Vose (NCB) inviting Bronowski to give the annual lecture of the Institute of Office Management (1968), declined; copies of a report on 'Manufactured Solid Fuels' written by Bronowski when he was director of the Coal Research Establishment (pre-1963); a reprint of 'Smokeless Fuel from Low-rank Coals Carbonized in a Fluidized Bed' by W Idris Jones and Jack Owen; a copy of a letter sending samples of smokeless fuel to Professor [Hermann] Bondi on Bronowski's request; handwritten notes for "NCB 24 hour interview, 25 Jan 1969"; and press cuttings relating to NCB (1969-70 & 1973-74).

'Smokeless Fuel from Low-rank Coals Carbonized in a Fluidized Bed' by W Idris Jones and Jack Owen was published in Journal of the Institute of Fuel, Sep 1962.