Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Urban Traffic Policy (UT Series) Files

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Details of MT 137
Reference: MT 137
Title: Transport Ministries: Urban Traffic Policy (UT Series) Files
Description:

This series contains the registered files of the Urban Traffic Policy Division of the Ministry of Transport and its successors.

The files relate to traffic and parking regulations outside Greater London and to environmental traffic policy. Many concern specific local orders and schemes.

Some files in this series have been re-registered from the GT series (otherwise in MT 112) and from the Road Traffic C Division. This series contains examples of re-registered files from both of these divisions.

This series also contains some files re-registered from the RTC series (otherwise in MT 113).
Date: 1949-1971
Separated material:

Some files in this series have been re-registered in LH series in MT 106
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: UT Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Development and General Division, 1953-1955

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways General Planning Division, 1956-1959

Ministry of Transport, General Planning Highways Division, 1965-1970

Ministry of Transport, Highways Development and General Division, 1951-1953

Ministry of Transport, Highways General Planning Division, 1959-1961

Ministry of Transport, Urban Traffic Policy Division, 1966-1968
Physical description: 47 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

from 1988 to 1997 Department of Transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The Urban Traffic Policy Division was formed in 1966 and took over work of the Highways General Planning Division. It was responsible for traffic and parking regulations outside Greater London and environmental traffic policy. In 1968 the Division was dissolved and its functions split between the London Highways Division and the newly created Transport and Traffic Planning Division.

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