Output, Labour and Machines in the Coal Mining Industry in Great Britain

THE quarterly statistical summaries of the Mines Department, issued before the war, giving data for each coal-mining region in Great Britain enable us to observe the changes with time in the output per manshift worked at the coal face. The annual reports of the Mines Department contain information about the number of coalcutting machines in use in the mines and about the average weekly number of coalwinding days, month by month. From these figures, some indication of the utilisation of machines at the coal-face is possible. One method of indicating the increasing importance of machinery is to quote the changing proportions of coal cut by machinery to the total output

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