ABSTRACT
This Section describes the course of events in the development of a double-unit hewing longwall organized on composite principles. In its early life the geological conditions were difficult in the extreme, and in the team, which was a new group put together for extraneous reasons, the majority of the members had no previous experience of either hewing or longwall faces. Each set of circumstances, geological and socio-psychological, aggravated the other. Conditions could scarcely have been more different from those obtaining on the cutting faces described in Section Five, which were in the same pit.
