Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - A History of Penarth Dock by Roy Thorne . . .

Edwards had been appointed at the opening of the dock. Samuel Thomas had been chief clerk to James Edwards. Thomas died in 1933. He was succeeded by E. C. Edwards, son of James Edwards. [1176]

The Penarth Pontoon, Slipway and Ship Repairing Company had its pontoon and "B" site at the west end of the dock, and a slipway and gridiron at the "A" site on the north side of the dock at the River Ely.

On the south side of the dock the map of 1911 shows 14 tips in the dock and two in the basin on the southern side. On the northern side of the basin were four movable tips. On the northern quay of the dock were two movable tips and four groups of cranes ; a 50 tons crane berth, four movable hydraulic cranes, a two crane berth, and four movable hydraulic cranes.

At the harbour works there were six coal tips remaining. Five of the original tips were removed between 1894 and 1897. There were nine cranes serving the South Wales Public Wharf and Transit Company Ltd., sites. The oil tanks near the mouth of the River Ely were a sign of the fuel that was to replace coal in industry.

Nine of the tips at the dock and two in the basin were as originally made when the dock opened. The tips were worked hydraulically and in cold leather fires were kept burning near the tips to prevent freezing.

New tips were installed. The Armstrong tips, numbers 2, 6 and 10 in the dock were erected in 1893 and were capable of tipping wagons at any height between three feet and 37 feet above the quay level or 47 feet above the water level when there was a depth of water on the dock sill of 32 feet. These tips could deal with wagons of a gross weight of 22 tons.

In 1905 Messrs Tannett Walker and Company of Leeds erected four tips, numbers 8, 13, 19 and 20 in the dock. 8 and 13 were fixed tips with steel structures. Numbers 19 and 20 were steel but movable. The coal wagons on these tips could be tipped at a height of 57 feet above the water level. The two movable tips, 19 and 20, were each carried on eight wheels, each of which was three feet in diameter and could be moved 200 feet along the quay wall.