Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - Some newspaper reports from the 1890's

• February 1894 - Shipping Facilities at Penarth Dock - "It is understood that the directors of the Penarth Dock and Harbour Company have decided upon the erection of several additional tips at Penarth dock in order to deal promptly and effectually with the gradual increase in coal shipments." Evening Express [135] 13th February 1894.

• March 1894 - New Tips for Penarth - A Large Increase in the Coal Shipments at the Dock - "Plans for four tips of the latest design to be erected at Penarth Dock have been submitted to the management of the Taff Vale Railway, and it is probable instructions will be given shortly for their erection, to meet the demand caused by increased shipments. For the first seven weeks of the year, compared with those of the same period last year, there has been an increase of 100,000 tons of coal shipped at Penarth Dock." Evening Express [135] 3rd March 1894.

• March 1894 - Shipment of Coal at Barry and Penarth - "Under the auspices of the Bristol Channel Centre of Marine Engineers, Mr S. W. Allen (Cardiff) on Tuesday evening last delivered a lecture at the University College, Cardiff, on "Mechanical Appliances for the Shipment of Coal," illustrated by lime-light views and series of models. The President (Professor A. C. Elliott) occupied the chair, and there was a numerous attendance. Mr Allen, in his lecture, gave an historical resume of the various methods employed in the transit and shipment of coal. The lecturer, having described some of the appliances in use during the early history of coal shipment in South Wales, directed attention to the systems of coal shipping by hydraulic power, and to Cardiff, Barry, Newport, and Swansea. He said they should prepare to see what perfection hydraulic power had been applied for this purpose.

The hydraulic tips made for Barry, &c., by Sir William Armstrong on the low level system were minutely described ; the schemes for movable tipping arrangements brought out by Mr George Taylor (Penarth) ; and, the tip, on a somewhat different principle, erected by Tannett, Walker, and Co., at the Alexandra Dock, Newport. Concluding the lecturer expressed the opinion that no better system had ever been employed for shipping the very fragile South Wales steam coal than the system of boxes introduced 20 or 40 years ago, but as long as the demand for rapid shipment was so universal he was afraid it would be impossible to return to this very excellent arrangement.