Catalogue description Ministry of Transport and successors, Establishment Division, Marine Branch: Registered Files

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Reference: MT 101
Title: Ministry of Transport and successors, Establishment Division, Marine Branch: Registered Files
Description:

This series consists of files in the Est/M series of the Ministry of War Transport and, from 1946, the Ministry of Transport. The files deal with establishment matters such as staffing and accommodation for the lighthouse service between 1942 and 1953.The series includes correspondence with Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Irish Lights Office.

No other files with the prefix EST/M are known to have survived.
Date: 1942-1959
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EST/M
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Establishment and General, Marine Branch, 1953-1959

Ministry of Transport, General Division, Marine Branch, 1950-1953

Ministry of Transport, Information Division, Marine Branch, 1946-1950

Ministry of War Transport, Information Division, Marine Branch, 1941-1946
Physical description: 66 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

Responsibility for merchant shipping was transferred from the Board of Trade to the Ministry of Shipping following the outbreak of war in 1939 and two years later was then absorbed within the new Ministry of War Transport.

After 1946 it remained with the peacetime Ministry of Transport until 1965 when it was restored to the Board of Trade.

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