Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Severn > Tolls and traffic

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Tolls, traffic and tonnage

Date

1892-1948

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BW163/14/1

System of arrangement

These records have been arranged roughly by subject, first records relating to tolls and then records relating to traffic and tonnage, and each group has been arranged chronologically.

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"Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic, and Revised Schedule of Maximum Tolls and Charges Applicable Thereto, proposed to be charged by the Severn Commission"

"The Import and Export Trade of Cardiff and the Severn Channel Navigation Scheme. Discussion at the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce"

"The Severn Navigation Commission. Instructions to the Collector of Tolls"

Instructions to Collectors of Tolls

"Instructions to the Collectors of Tolls as to the Collection of Tolls on Pleasure Steamers and Pleasure Craft, Under the Severn Navigaton Act, 1920"

"Summary of Cargoes entered for Conveyance on the River and the Amount of Tolls payable thereon"

"Table of Distances, and of tolls chargeable upon the River Severn Between Stourport and Gloucester, Pursuant to 'The Severn Navigation Act 1842'"

"Table of Distances, and of tolls chargeable upon the River Severn, between Stourport and Gloucester"

"Table of Distances and of Tolls per ton to be paid upon the Severn Navigation..."

Papers concerning tolls

"Account of the Tolls and Charges payable on The Severn Navigation, with Tables of Distances and of Tolls and Classification of Merchandies"

Tolls and wharfage charges for merchandise carried on the River Severn

"Particulars of the Tolls Payable on Various Navigations in Respect of Passenger Steamers and Pleasure Boats"

"Account or List of Tolls and Charges to be paid...by Passenger Vessels, Steam Launches, Pleasure Boats and House Boats"

Tolls and charges to be paid by passenger vessels, pleasure boats etc

"Directions by the Minister of Transport as to the increase of Tolls etc on the Navigations"

"Notice of decrease of tolls and charges"

Clerk's correspondence and papers concerning the South West Regional Canal Committee monthly toll returns

Application for licence in respect of a pleasure boat for hire [a ferry boat] on the River Severn

"Receipt by the Severn & Canal Carrying Co Ltd for the sum of £200"

"Guarantee in respect of Monthly Credit Account for Tolls granted to the Rowley Regis Granite Quarries Limited"

Authorisation to Gloucester Harbour Trustees to increase rates, granted by Board of Trade

"Trial Trip between Sharpness and Gloucester"

Papers concerning tolls on the River Severn

Tonnage ledger

"Copy Agreement as to Through Traffic in Sugar between Gloucester and Knighton on the Shropshire Union Canal via Bournville and Birmingham and via Stourport"

"Vessels Trading via Llanthony Lock"

"Ministry of Transport. Statistics of Traffic Carried on the River Severn"

"South West Region Annual Tonnage Statistics"

"South West Region Monthly Tonnage Statistics Severn Waterway"

"Table Shewing difference per cent per ton in Conveyance of Goods in various months"

"Forms of Manifests"

Clerk's correspondence and papers concerning traffic returns

Through traffic certificates and record of lockages

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