Fife Coal Company
The Fife Coal Company was formed in 1872 to acquire the small Beath and Blairadam Colliery with its pits in Kelty. Its head office was in Leven. In addition to coal, the company worked some ironstone. For the whole of its operating life, the company was run by Charles Carlow and then his son C. Augustus Carlow. Output was expanded from an initial 70,000 tons a year to 4.3m. in 1911. Although it became the largest coal company in Scotland, Fife Coal never regained that level of output in the inter-war period.
| Successor | National Coal Board |
|---|---|
| Formation | September 1872 |
| Dissolved | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Leven, Fife |
| Products | coal, ironstone, bricks |
Chairman | William Lindsay (1872–1884) Thomas Aitken (1884–1907) Charles Carlow (1907–?) C. Augustus Carlow (?–1946) |
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