| Description | Recording weekly costs and costs per ton, with several rows in sections: output, days worked in week and percentage; [for colliers and fillers] tonnage worked at different rates, rigging and packing, Arcwall [type of coalcutter], Siskol [type of coal cutter], colliers' day work, bars at different rates, dirt and water, flat sheets, boring, drifting, allowances, firehole, shift money, tramming, and Knowles heading; minimum, shifts, war addition, with additional bonus from May 1941; [for underground daymen] deputies, shot firers, haulage and onsetters, pipe fitters, roadlayers, gummers, cable, datallers [workers paid by day] and electricians, fitters and bricklayers; shifts, war addition and Elsecar men, R.E.H. expenses and salary; Parkgate; total underground costs.
The book has been tenatively identfied by a note attached to the front endpaper on Parkgate costs by A.E.R. written to R.S. Horrox, Esq. Reginald Sorby Horrox was a director of the Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited, which had made an agreement with Sir George Sitwell regarding the working of the Parkgate seam in 1925. Reginald E. Horrox was also director of the company as well as Earl Fitzwilliam, for whom he had acted as Manager at the Earl's Elsecar Colliery near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. |