Operating shaft winding engine for raising and lowering men, coal and materials.

Driving a direct rope haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam, for the transport of coal, dirt, materials and men on the surface.

Driving a direct rope haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam, for the transport of coal, dirt and material on the surface, excluding men.

Driving a haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam, and transmitting power to two or more drums, for the transport of coal, dirt, materials and men.

Driving a haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam, and transmitting power to two or more drums, for the transport of coal, dirt and material on the surface, excluding men.

Driving a haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam, and transmitting power to an endless haulage-rope by means of a surge wheel, for the transport of coal, dirt, materials and men.

Driving a haulage engine operated by electricity, compressed air or steam and transmitting power to an endless haulage rope by means of a surge wheel, for the transport of coal, dirt and material on the surface, excluding men.

Responsible for control of shaft top and signalling cages for coal, men and materials.

Assisting Banksman on pit top; in charge of additional deck where auxiliary signals to Banksman.

Operating cage catches at pit top.

Assisting in loading on to, or drawing off from, the cage at shaft top.

Responsible for control of drift mouth, where the drift is a walkable outlet, and signalling for coal, material and men.

Operations connected with the movement of trains or tubs on the surface.

Accompanying sets of trains or tubs on rope haulage for purpose of changing rope or ropes at end of run.

Marshalling, coupling and uncoupling trains or tubs and changing ropes from one journey to another on partings, pass-byes and shunts.

Operating coal or dirt tub tippler.

Operating coal crushing plant.

Attending to motor or engine driving screens, and operating screening machinery.

Removing foreign matter from coal on picking belts or screens; picking dirt or various qualities of coal on picking belts or screens; hand picking of dirt from coal on picking belts or screens; breaking coal on picking belts or screens; raising and lowering jib end of screen belts in the filling of wagons.

Operating railway wagon tippler.

Working at a washery under the direct instruction of Washery Foreman or Chargeman in the operation of a washing plant; controlling valves and machinery, and quality of coal entering and leaving washery.

General duties connected with washing processes at washery under supervision of Washery Foreman or Washery Operator.

Operating washery pumps and/or motors.

Operating and controlling dry cleaning plant.

General work connected with dry cleaning plant.

Loading hand-picked coal into wagons by hand.

Attending to air cleaning plant.

Responsible for proper loading of wagons; levelling coal on wagons; examination and top trimming of coal in wagons before despatch.

Controlling the lowering of railway wagons on gravity tracks.

Maintenance and repairs of haulage tracks on surface.

Laying and maintaining railway tracks.

Driving locomotive in and about colliery premises on narrow gauge track.

Firing boilers on locomotive under supervision of Loco Driver.

Guard on train hauled by locomotive on standard gauge track and in charge of train.

Marshalling traffic; coupling and uncoupling wagons and operating switches in the circulation of railway wagons on colliery surface, and in the marshalling of trains in readiness for despatch.

Operating railway signals on N.C.B. lines

Driving horses or ponies on surface.

General carting duties and driving horse-drawn vehicle.

Responsible for care of horses; feeding, cleaning, watering and general care of horses and stables.

Employed at granary preparing fodder for horses; preparing and storing food for horses.

In charge of surface pumps; attending to efficient running and lubrication of pumps on the surface.

Operating mechanical dumper.

Driving power operated overhead crane.

Operating stationary or mobile crane by means of hand wheel or hand winch.

Operating mechanical excavator.

Operating bull dozer.

Operating mechanical tractor.

Driving road roller.

Rendering first aid in first aid room and maintaining equipment.

In charge of fire fighting on the surface; general supervision of fire fighting apparatus on the surface.

Statutorily responsible for storing, distribution to workmen, and keeping records of explosives.

Charging hydrox shells and keeping records.

Operating plant charging cardox shells; maintenance of plant, charging of shells; assisting in filling and maintaining, and keeping records.

Performing work of a general character other than highly skilled work.

Erecting and repairing fences; fencing and dyking.

General gardening work including planting, hedging, fencing, etc.

General duties in pithead baths under supervision of Baths Superintendent.

Responsible for the security of colliery premises.

Cleaning of offices.

Cleaner of workshops, enginerooms, etc.

Responsible for reception, loading, trimming and despatch of coal from landsales.

Responsible for the operation of a drilling rig for exploratory boring.

General duties under the supervision of a Borer in the operation of a drilling rig for exploratory boring.

Repairing, testing, cleaning and charging of electric, carbide and oil lamps, including fitting of oil vessels to oil lamps.

Attending to water softening or hardening plant; checking hardness of water supplied to boilers and operating softening plant.

Feeding fuel to boiler, maintaining steam pressure and water level.

In charge of steam accumulator; in charge of accumulator which collects exhaust steam from engines for further use.

Cleaning out boiler flues.

Removing scale from inside boiler.

Attending to air compressor plant.

Attending the generating plant and switchgear in a power house; either singly responsible for turbines with a total capacity of 5,000 kWs. or less; or jointly responsible with other Power House Attendants II for turbines with an aggregate capacity which works out at 5,000 kWs. or less per Power House Attendant II working on each shift.

Operating switchgear on power distribution board.

Attending to running of main mine ventilating fan or fans.

Sharpening and setting saws.

Engaged in operating all types of power-driven woodsaws and the necessary sharpening of heavy saws.

Rough sawing of timber into various lengths by power-driven and cross-cut saws.

Operating morticing, tenoning. planning and similar machines to produce component parts of wood.

Making and maintaining leather equipment.

Repairing boots and shoes.

Painting and decorating old and new work, including graining, varnishing, stippling, gilding and mixing own colours.

Reparing old and new work and applying one or more simple coats of paint.

Inspecting, installing and maintaining power lines.

Vulcanising of electric cables.

Engaged on carrying out repairs to electric cables and their conductors in the shop.

Engaged on minor repairs and maintenance of mechanical appliances. either with or without supervision.

Competent worker qualified by training, experience and/or apprenticeship. engaged on the setting up and machining of metals, and working to fine tolerances.

Performing all classes of acetylene or electric welding.

Welding of metals using butt welding machine.

Competent worker qualified by experience, training and/or apprenticeship. engaged on the construction and/or repair of boilers.

Jointing of metals using brazing compound.

Gutting metal by means of acetylene or electric burner.

Installing and maintaining gas, hot and cold water supply and sanitary appliances.

Making and repairing tinware.

Making tools for power operated machines, e.g.. lathe tools, drills, cutters, reamers, etc.

General smithy work including forging work connected with plant or chains, or heat treatment of drawbars and chains, or capping and recapping of ropes, etc.

Engaged on the making and fitting of horse shoes.

Sharpening, grinding or tipping picks, drills or bits.

Sharpening, grinding or tipping coal cutter picks.

Maintaining and extending pipe ranges; dismantling and erecting in new position compressed air and/or water pipes.

Splicing, capping, maintaining and installing haulage ropes.

Striking for blacksmith, attending fires and generally assisting blacksmith.

Operating power press for straightening steel.

Making moulds and preparing castings.

Making patterns in wood; making patterns for brass and iron castings.

General joinery work in shops; making woodwork of all kinds for building structures.

Capable only of undertaking and engaged upon rough types of joinery work.

Laying bricks or prefabricated blocks, building to specification and maintaining fabric.

Site assembly of structural steelwork.

Site assembly of structural steelwork under supervision of a fully qualified Erector.

Competent worker (other than those described under the Group name of Fitter, Blacksmith, Joiner, etc.), qualified by apprenticeship. training and/or experience, engaged on the repair and rebuilding of railway wagons.

Major overhaul and repairs of motor vehicles and compression ignition engines.

Driving motor vehicles, cars, lorry or ambulance car.

Loading coal from tubs into boat, barge or ship at quay side by hand tipping.

Trimming by hand, coal cargo on a sea going vessel.

Semi-skilled electrical worker engaged on minor repairs and maintenance of electrical equipment and appliances under the supervision of a fully qualified Electrician.

Operating a power driven metal cutting circular saw.

Vulcanising conveyor belting or an equivalent process with plastics.

Assembling pit-tubs and mine cars including riveting and bolting, and fixation of axles and wheels.

Jacking up wagon, removing wheels and re-assembling.

Competent radial drill operator qualified by experience, training and/or apprenticeship, operating a power-driven radial drilling machine including setting up.

Responsible for operating remote controls at central point, governing the movement of mine cars on pit top circuit.

Reforming steel arches into correct shape using furnace and tem plate.

Operating power driven screwing machine.

Competent Turner qualified by experience, training and/or apprenticeship, engaged on operating power-driven centre or face plate lathe.

Operating a power driven metal shearing machine.

Attaching or detaching tubs or trains to endless rope.

Competent worker qualified by experience, training and/or apprenticeship, engaged on repair of cores, taping. vulcanising and testing of electric trailing cables.

Erecting tubular scaffolding.

Attending generating plant and switchgear in a power house; either singly responsible for turbines with a total capacity of more than 5,000 kWs; or, jointly responsible with other Power House Attendants I for turbines with an aggregate capacity which works out at more than 5,000 kWs. per Power House Attendant I. working on each shift; and/or responsible for integration of station output with an Area Electricity Board supply and the adjustment of the load to the available capacity of the N.C.B. station.

Responsible for safe and efficient working of all boiler regulating gear at regulating gear platform level.

Responsible at power houses (only) with an installed capacity of 20,000 K.W. or more for the safe operation of high speed, high pressure feed pumps working at pressures greater than 750 lb. per square inch; for feeder heater circulating and boiler feed pumps; for operating switchgear for pumps.

Responsible at power houses (only) with an installed capacity of 29.000 K.W. or more for the safe operation of pressure feed pumps working at pressures less than 750 lbs. per square inch; for feeder heater circulating pumps and for condensing pumps; works in conjunction with a Power House H.P. Pumpsman I.

Responsible at power stations (only) with an installed capacity of less than 20.000 K.W. for the safe operation of high speed high pressure feed pumps working at pressures greater than 750 lb. per square inch; for feeder heater circulating and boiler feed pumps; for operating switchgear for pumps.

Responsible at power stations (only) with an installed capacity of less than 20,000 K.W. for the safe operation of pressure feed pumps working at pressures less than 750 lb. per square inch; for feeder heater circulating pumps and for condensing pumps; works in con- junction with a Power House H.P. Pumpsman II.

Attending to main firedamp drainage plant.

Engaged on steam pipe lagging where the lagging is not prefabricated.

Hand moulding of clay-bricks, and special shapes.

Drawing bricks and/or shapes from kilns and loading or stacking them on to transport or stacking ground.

Transporting commodities inside the brickworks premises by operating an electric truck.

Firing kilns to produce finished bricks and/or shapes and carrying out as required all the jobs necessary and connected with the correct operation of their kiln.

Lifting material with mechanical shovel, transporting and dumping same as required.

Feeding and operating dry grinding mill.

Operating and attending mixing and clay preparation machinery to control moisture and plasticity.

Wheeling green bricks and/or shapes to kilns by hand and setting them in kilns.

Driving and operating mobile steam or diesel driven crane running on railway tracks, using crane to move railway wagons.

Operating stationary or mobile power operated jib crane other than a mobile steam or diesel crane running on railway tracks.

Driving motor vehicles for the delivery of bagged coal to consumers. collecting money from customers and issuing receipts.

Responsible to Storekeeper for the makeup of issues, replenishment of bins and the performance of other semi-skilled duties in a storehouse.

Employed in loco sheds, cleaning boilers, cleaning and filling sand boxes, filling boiler with water, lighting loco fires; solely responsible for steam raising, getting up steam and, where necessary, moving the locomotive into position for the driver.

Driving and operating Fork Lift Truck.

Operating a wagon traverser, complete with weighing machine and charger unit to service multiple rail tracks and maintaining necessary records.

Driving Low Loader and/or Heavy Articulated Vehicle; responsible for driving the vehicle and for the loading and off-loading of heavy equipment up to the limits of the capacity of the vehicle.

Person appointed to supervise and instruct teams of juveniles in ordinary manual and labouring operations on the surface.

Operating water treatment plant comprising two or more units, each unit of which is required to operate continuously with the other(s) and to treat the water for water tube boilers by a different chemical process.

Responsible for the calibration, repair and maintenance of M.S.A. type methanometers.

Driving locomotives in and about and outside colliery premises. including running over British Railways lines, hauling men, minerals, or materials.

Driving locomotive on standard gauge track in and about and outside colliery premises on N.C.B. private lines, including shunting operations entailing limited movements on British Railways lines, hauling men, minerals, or materials.

Responsible for the safe and economic operation of watertube boilers of 50,000 lb./hr. and over, fired either by Martin Stokers or by pulverised fuel equipment (including responsibility for feeding the fuel into and through the pulverising equipment), in either case wholly or mainly burning slurry, and for the maintenance of the required steam pressure and water level.

Responsible for control of shaft top and for the signalling of cages for coal, men and materials where a central control system has been installed so that the Banksman directly controls the movement on and off the cages of tubs, trains or minecars, or in the case of skip winding the skip discharge doors, and also directly controls ancillary equipment such as hoppers, tippers and creepers where the combined operations require special skill and training.

Driving coal tanker equipped with pneumatic or conveyor unloading device, responsible for loading the tanker, driving, and discharging contents into reception tank or bunker pneumatically or by means of the conveyor.

Directly responsible to the Plant Manager for the operation of a major washery where there is control of all equipment from a central point and the operator starts, adjusts for correct running, and stops all plant.

Controlling N.C.B. and British Railways trains over N.C.B. internal railway systems, worked in accordance with British Railways block telegraph and signalling regulations.

Competent sampler qualified by training and experience; takes and reduces samples; carries out float and sink and moisture determination tests as required.

Assists Coal Sampler in taking and reducing samples, works under the direction of Coal Sampler and is in need of supervision.

Operation of surface telephone exchange where this includes equipment giving remote indication, covering a wide area of the pit, of the state or functioning of underground apparatus and installations: responsible for observation of this equipment, interpretation of signals and necessary follow-up action.

Operating slant or drift engine for raising and lowering men, coal or materials to and from the surface.

Competent communications electrician qualified by experience. training and/or apprenticeship engaged on the installation and maintenance of radio frequency communications equipment and/or automatic line communication systems.

Marshalling traffic, coupling and uncoupling wagons and operating switches in the circulation of railway wagons on colliery surface, and in the marshalling of trains in readiness for despatch where the duties include accompanying trains running over British Railway lines and the shunters are required to pass tests in British Railways rules and regulations.

Operating timber impregnation plant, including mixing correct quantities of chemicals to be used to impregnate the timber; operating pumps; maintenance and minor repair of equipment.

Directly responsible to Shift Foreman for the operation of a major thermal coal drying plant where there is control of all equipment from a central point and the operator starts, adjusts for correct running and stops all plant.

Firing boilers on locomotives under supervision of Loco Driver, where the duties include accompanying locomotives running over British Railways Lines and the Fireman is required to pass tests in British Railways rules and regulations.

Responsible at a major coal stocking site for selecting the appropriate place for loading and unloading the various qualities of coal and directing drivers to it. ensuring that coal is properly stacked, noting deliveries and outgoings and checking the credentials and authorisations of drivers and reporting to the Area Transport Officer.

Responsible for the control of the flow of coal from one conveyor to another via a mobile bunker of not less than 25 tons capacity which, either runs along a track or contains within it mechanical equipment for the purpose of distributing and ultimately discharging its load.

Responsible for control of loading installation comprising four or more wagon loading booms where a central control system has been installed so that the operator has over-riding control of feed to wagon loading booms and control of the movement of wagons into which the booms feed.

Operating underground conveyor transport system, including bunkers, and loading points where they are part of such a system, and other equipment, by remote control from a central control panel or desk. including observing and interpreting remote indication equipment and monitors and taking necessary follow-up action, including maintaining contact with workmen underground where a link is installed. including making reports where required.

Responsible for observation of equipment, giving remote indication of the state or functioning of underground apparatus and installations over a wide area of the pit, interpretation of signals and necessary follow-up.

Competent electrician and competent fitter qualified by experience or training and/or apprenticeship. engaged at a colliery on the combined duties of installation, examination, testing, maintenance and repair of the colliery's electrical and mechanical apparatus.

Competent fitter qualified by experience or training and/or apprenticeship, engaged at a colliery on the installation, examination, testing, maintenance and repair of the colliery's mechanical apparatus.

Competent electrician qualified by experience or training and/or apprenticeship, engaged at a colliery on the installation, examination. testing, maintenance and repair of the colliery's electrical apparatus.

Competent fitter qualified by experience or training and/or apprenticeship, engaged on the installation, examination, testing, maintenance and repair of mechanical apparatus.

Competent electrician qualified by experience or training and/or apprenticeship, engaged on the installation examination, testing, maintenance and repair of electrical apparatus.

Driving and operating mobile power-operated jib crane having a maximum lifting capacity of not less than 15 tons and a jib of total length of 60 ft. or more which is erected by the driver.

Responsible for filling tubs, trains or minecars at a major mechanised loading point with a peak capacity not less than 200 tons per hour where control equipment is centralised in the hands of one loaderman and where the complexity of the control system is such that special skill and experience are necessary.

Filling tubs, trains or minecars at loading point

Operating underground conveyor transport system, including bunkers, where the operator on his own initiative directly controls the feed into and the discharge from the bunkers, and loading points where they are part of such a system, and other equipment, by remote control from a central panel or desk including observing and interpreting remote indication equipment and monitors and taking necessary follow up action including maintaining contact with workmen underground where a link is installed including making reports where required.

Responsible for control of Drift Mouth, where the drift is an unwalkable outlet, and signalling for coal, material and men.