Coal (or a colliery) is said to be won when it is made accessible for exploitation; winning comprehends boring for coal, sinking the shafts, excavations, and the actual procuring of coal …

Stent or Stint. The coalface would be divided into sections (stents) of about 8 to 10 yards in length, e.g. a coalface 150 yards long would have 15 to 18 stents. A collier would work his …

The combination of coal cutters and stint belts, resulted in specialised shifts and 24 hour operations at the coalface. Prep Shift: Cutting the coal, boring and firing; Production Shift: Coal …

A fixed work target on the coalface that every collier is expected to do in one shift or a single week. In longwall conveyor work, it is the length, area, or volume of face that the miner …

Fill coal by working along the buttock, i.e., filling the coal on to the conveyor from a position under the newly set bars (straps). Set props and bars (straps) as soon as enough coal has been …

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The loading of broken coal at the face into conveyors or mine cars. The clearing shift is the coal-loading shift or stint. Usually the miner has a measured task or stint (stent).

This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal …