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Mauchline Colliery

Location:	Mauchline 7 miles [11 km] SE of Kilmarnock
Map Ref:	(Sheet 70 Ayr, Kilmarnock and Troon) NS496293, 55° 32' 5" N, 4° 22' 59" W
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Owners:	Caprington and Auchlochan Collieries Ltd.
	Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Industrial. (310,000 tons)
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:	1933 - 340 (280 below, 60 surface)
	1937 - Nos. 2 and 4 - 510 (360 below, 150 surface)
	1940 - Nos. 2 and 4 - 642 (466 below, 176 surface)
	1947 - 810 (631 below, 179 surface)
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 851 (657 below, 194 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Hurlford Main, Tourha
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

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1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1937 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian