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Crown patent fuel works, Cardiff, photograph

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View showing John Bovell in overalls and safety helmet. John Bovell was foreman of the briquetting operation at Crown patent fuel works, Cardiff. The Crown fuel works was located in Cardiff Docks, and operated by the Coal Products Division of the N.C.B. The plant used a fluidised sand bed to 'cook' coal briquettes to render them smokeless.

Crown patent fuel works, Cardiff, photograph
Image: By kind permission of Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. © Unknown. If you have any information that may assist us in identifying a © holder, please contact image.licensing@museumwales.ac.uk
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Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2010.85/8

Creation/Production

unknown
Date: 1964 (circa)

Acquisition

Donation, 19/10/2010

Measurements

Length (mm): 90
Width (mm): 88

Techniques

black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph

Material

paper

Location

In store

Categories

coal coke & patent fuel other industries and man. South Glamorgan 1960s
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