HC Deb 12 March 1940 vol 358 c1015W
Brigadier-General Clifton Brown

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, for the purposes of estate duties, pit-props of six inch and under are classed as timber or underwood?

Captain Crookshank

The material from which pit-props of any size are made would normally be classed for estate duty purposes as timber and not as underwood.

Forward to