Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation, predecessors and successors: Royal Radar Establishment and predecessors: Registered Files

Files of the Experimental Section Royal Engineers, which subsequently became the Air Defence Experimental Establishment of the War Office and of its successors at the Ministry of Supply, of the Air Ministry's Bawdsey Research Station and its successor the Telecommunications Research Establishment of the Ministry of Aircraft Production and of the Ministry of Supply; and of the Royal Radar Establishment.

The records in this series were created by the Establishment and its predecessors when under the control of the War Office, Air Ministry, Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aircraft Production. The records consist of the following main groups:

Files relating to Royal Air Force equipment (AVIA 7/1-2751).

Files relating to Army equipment (AVIA 7/2752-3552)

See also CAB 125

Air Defence Experimental Establishment, 1924-1941

Air Defence Research and Development Establishment, 1941-1944

Air Ministry Research Establishment, 1939-1940

Air Ministry, Bawdsey Research Station, 1936-1939

Radar Research and Development Establishment, 1944-1953

Radar Research Establishment, 1953-1957

Royal Radar Establishment, 1957-1976

Telecommunication Research Establishment, 1940-1953

War Office, Experimental Section Royal Engineers, 1917-1918

War Office, Searchlight Experimental Establishment, 1918-1924

From 1967 Ministry of Defence