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Board of Trade: Distribution of Industry and Regional Division: Regional Boards for...

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Reference	BT 171
Title	Board of Trade: Distribution of Industry and Regional Division: Regional Boards for Industry: Files
Date	1942-1965
Description	This series contains headquarters material concerning the Regional Boards for Industry. Among the papers are minutes of the meetings of chairmen of Regional Boards, Secretaries' Conference reports, Regional Controllers' Monthly Reports for the Midland and North Midland Boards, memoranda on the Midland and North Midland Boards, papers relating to organisation, general subject files and material on the fuel crisis of the winter of 1947.
Related material	See also HLG 107 For records of the Economic Affairs Office see BT 195 See also the records of regional organisations in
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Board of Trade, Distribution of Industry and Regional Division, 1946-1965 Board of Trade, Distribution of Industry Division, 1965-1969
Physical description	352 file(s)
Access conditions	Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative/ biographical background	The Regional Boards for Industry were set up by the Ministry of Supply in January 1940 under the title Area Boards. They were then controlled successively by the Ministry of Labour (May 1940 - July 1942), the Ministry of Production (July 1942 - 1945), the Board of Trade (1945 - October 1947), the Ministry of Economic Affairs (October - November 1947), the Treasury (November 1947 - February 1952) and again the Board of Trade until they were disbanded in January 1965.

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