CONTENTS

Introduction    7
Why Private Owner Wagons?    9

The Owners
J. C. Abbott & Co. Ltd    13
Abercrave and International Collieries    15
Arley Colliery Co. Ltd    16
C. & G. Ayres Ltd    17
B. A. Collieries Ltd    19
City of Birmingham Gas Department    23
Alfred Blackmore & Co. Ltd    30
Bolsover Colliery Co.    31
Braithwaite, Heslop & Co. Ltd    34
Breedon & Cloud Hill Lime Works    35
Brentnall & Cleland    37
G. Bryer Ash    39
H. C. Bull & Co. Ltd    41
Burton on Trent Co-op Society Ltd    41
Cain Bros.    42
Charringtons    43
Wm. Clarke & Son Ltd    47
The Cliffe Hill Granite Co. Ltd    48
Geo. J. Cockerell & Co.    49
Colmans Mustard    51
Alexander Comley Ltd    52
Denby Grange Collieries    54
Desford Colliery    55
Diamond Anthracite Mine Co. Ltd    56
A. T. Everitt & Co.     57
John Facer & Son    58
The First Garden City Ltd    58
Glan-Garnant Colliery    59
Gloucester Gas Light Company    61
Griff Collieries    62
Hall¹s Collieries Ltd    63
Hatfield Main Colliery    64
Highley Mining Co. Ltd    66
Kingsbury Collieries Ltd    67
W. H. Kynaston    68
W. B. Lampard & Co.    68
Leamington Priors Gas Company    70
Linby Colliery Co. Ltd    72
Littleton Collieries Ltd    73
Wm. Lockhart    73
Longbottom & Co. Ltd    74
Lowell Baldwin Ltd    75
The Mains Coal & Cannel Co.    77
Maltby Main Colliery    77
Measham Collieries Ltd    79
Moira Colliery Co. Ltd    80
Walter Moore & Sons    82
Mottram Wood Colliery Co. Ltd    83
J. & N. Nadin & Co. Ltd    85
Newstead Colliery Co.    86
New Cransley Iron & Steel Co. Ltd    87
New Hucknall and Blackwell Collieries Ltd    88
New Lount & Coleorton Collieries    91
John North & Son    92
City of Nottingham Electricity Department    93
James Oakes & Co.    94
Reynolds & Hutton    95
Sheffield Coal Co.    95
Shireoaks Colliery Co.    97
S. W. Smedley & Co. Ltd    98
South Leicestershire Colliery Co. Ltd    99
Spencer, Abbott & Co. Ltd    101
Wallace Spiers & Co.    103
Stafford Coal & Iron Co. Ltd    105
Stockingford Colliery Company    105
Toomer, R. & Co. Ltd    107
Warwickshire Coal Co. Ltd    109
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd    112
Whitwick Colliery    112
Whitwill, Cole & Co. Ltd    113
Isaac Wilkinson Ltd    113
Williams Foster and Pascoe Grenfell Ltd    114
J. R. Wood & Co. Ltd    115
Wyken Colliery and Snow & Sons    117

Aftermath    119
Anecdotes    124
Eccentricities    125
Acknowledgements, Sources    126
Models    128
Bibliography    128

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