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Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers

Description and record details

Reference BT 28
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Unpublished finding aids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