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Oakdale Colliery, manpower deployment board

Grey board with 50 rows of slots (vertical) each row has a central wide section for name of worker and either side of this a narrower section for pay number/employee number (r/h side) and lampcheck to hang onto nail (on l/h side). Total number of pieces - 94.

Reads as follows :- Face Installation Lamp Colour Code Check Rectangle(shift?)
4018 T Williams 617 Yes Red 3726 P Price 79 No Green 4249 J Davies 506 No 4242 J Morris 637 No Green 4333 E Davies 546 No Blue 4529 A Collings 565 No Red 3254 C Evans 176 Yes Blue 3825 T Fears 91 Yes Blue 4402 DR Davies 51 Yes Blue 4449 P Richards 339 Yes Green 4819 J H Carey 100 Yes Red 4832 TJ Llewellyn 335 Yes Blue 4659 R T Evans 17 No Green 4689 M Prosser 215 Yes Blue 4501 C Haggerty 104 Yes Green 4879 A Bennett 387 Yes Blue 709 D Page 307 Yes Blue 4273 K George 552 Yes Blue 2613 H Prosser 299 Yes Blue 3068 D Pritchard 110 Yes Blue 4863 J Jones 38 Yes Green 5205 V Haines 612 Yes Red 4608 T Williams 380 Yes Red R Postains 654 Yes Blue
Below last employee name are 4 black cards with job descriptions - 'Operators', 'Captain', 'Gate Supplies', 'Checkers'

Oakdale Colliery, manpower deployment board
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Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

92.9I/2

Measurements

Length (mm): 1010
Width (mm): 65
Height (mm): 35

Categories

Gwent (county name) unknown date

Classification

buildings coal mine
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