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Crown patent fuel works, Cardiff, photograph
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.
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Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2010.85/8
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Coal Products (NCB)
Associated Person/Body: National Coal Board
Association Type: place name
Creation/Production
unknown
Acquisition
Donation, 19/10/2010
Measurements
Length
(mm): 90
Width
(mm): 88
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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