Records created or inherited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and of related bodies relating to government research establishments and funding for other scientific and industrial research.
Contains records of the department's central organisation and its Records Bureau, of its Advisory Council and Research Council and of various research establishments and research funding organisations comprising the National Engineering Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, the Warren Spring Laboratory, the Aeronautical Research Council, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, research organisations (boards, committees and laboratories), the Imperial Trust and Industrial Research Associations.