National Coal Board

National Coal Board
	National Coal Board logo
Abbreviation	NCB
Successor	British Coal
Formation	15 July 1946
Dissolved	5 March 1987
Legal status	Statutory corporation
Purpose	"Working and getting the coal in Great Britain, and securing the efficient development of the coal-mining industry."
Headquarters	Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London SW1
Products	Coal
Owner	UK Government
Chairman	Lord Hyndley (1947–1951); Sir Hubert Houldsworth (1951–1956); Sir Jim Bowman (1956–1961); Lord Robens (1961–1971); Sir Derek Ezra (1971–1981); Norman Siddall (1981–1983); Ian MacGregor (1983–1986); Sir Robert Haslam (1986–1987)

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "vesting day", 1 January 1947. In 1987, the NCB was renamed the British Coal Corporation, and its assets were subsequently privatised.