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

Reference:
AVIA 7
Title:
Ministry of Aviation, predecessors and successors: Royal Radar Establishment and predecessors: Registered Files
Description:

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)

Date:
1917-1969
Related Material:
See also CAB 125
Held by:
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status:
Public Record
Language:
English
Creator:
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
Physical description:
3807 file(s)
Access conditions:
Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:
Ministry of Defence , from 1967
Accruals:
Series is accruing

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