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Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference | BT 28 |
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Title | Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers |
Date | 1936-1946 |
Description | Records of the Ministry of Production, including some of the Ministry of Supply (SUPP), which passed to the Board of Trade. |
Arrangement | The series begins at BT 28/83 and gives the reference numbers of the files in each box as far as BT 28/274, after which the descriptions start. BT 28/1-82 have been renumbered BT 28/280-1200. The significance of the file reference numbers for the Parliamentary Questions and Answers and Non-Munition Supply Sub-series (BT 28/83-243 and BT 28/244-274) is as follows: ALP - Anglo-American Co-ordinating Committee (Supply)AR - Allocations RegisterCGMT/SEC - Controller General of Machine Tools (Secetariat)CJAC - Central Joint Advisory CommitteeECH - Empire Clearing HouseHIC - Progress DivisionIC - Industrial CapacityICC - Industrial Capacity CommitteeIDPC - Chief Production Executives' Committee200/ALL - Central Priority Department: Allocations200/GEN - Central Priority Department: General200/RS - Central Priority Department: Records and Statistics213/GEN - Sub-Committee on Internal Combustion EnginesJIS - Joint Industrial StaffJWPS - Joint War Production StaffM - MaterialsMISC - MiscellaneousMLE - Munitions Management and Labour Efficiency CommitteePE/AR - Production Executive: Allocation and RecordsPE/IC - Production Executive: Industrial CapacityPE/PR - Production Executive: Priority of Production Direction; 1941PE/RM - Production Executive: Raw MaterialsPEC - Paper Economy CommitteePP - Production ProgrammeRM - Raw MaterialsSEC - SecretariatNM - Non-MunitionsNM (MISC) - Non-Munitions (Miscellaneous) |
Related material |
See also the Ministry of Supply registered files (200 series) in AVIA 22 |
Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status | Public Record(s) |
Language |
English |
Physical description | 1218 boxes and files |
Access conditions | Open |
Unpublished finding aids |
For indexes see BT 29 and BT 30 |
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