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June, 1955
Productivity prize scheme
Speaking at a luncheon in connection with the National Delegate Conference of the British Association of Colliery Management at Blackpool, Major S. Walton-Brown, the President of the Association, said that he was glad and privileged to be able to announce that through the agency of Mr. Hugh Wood, of Hugh Wood & Company, the mining-machinery manufacturers, the sum of £5,000 has been deposited with the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers as a special prize to be given to the first National Coal Board area which develops a mine which produces over a period of not less than twelve months an average of more than 2,000 tons per day with an output exceeding six tons per person employed both on the surface and underground.
Where no cleaning plant is available at the mine and the coal has to be sent to a separate unit, a fair proportion of the labour employed at the Central Plant is to be taken into account in estimating the tonnage per person employed.
The Divisional Board in whose area the prize is won are to be responsible for distributing the £5,000 amongst the following participants:
the area general manager; the area production manager; the agent; the unit manager; the local lodge of the N.U.M. (Welfare Branch).
The decision as to whether the prize has been won is to be in the hands of a Committee nominated by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers.
Article reproduced from a copy of the magazine held at National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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