Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Structures Approval, Signs and Lighting (SASL Series) Files

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Reference: MT 186
Title: Transport Ministries: Structures Approval, Signs and Lighting (SASL Series) Files
Description:

This series contains the registered files of the Bridges Engineering Division. They concern the work of the Division in monitoring measures for strengthening and reconstructing sub-standard bridges. Some files were re-registered into the series from the BE file series in MT 118
Date: 1963-1967
Arrangement:

File reference order by each transfer
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SASL file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport, Bridges Engineering Division, 1964-1970
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: These documents were transferred to the Department of the Environment in 1970, the Department of Transport in 1976 and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Accumulation dates: File series ran 1980-1984
Selection and destruction information: Policy files representing the work of the Division have been selected. Files concerning routine issues (load assessments of particular bridges, bridge surveys etc.) have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Bridges Engineering Division was responsible for: technical approval of all types of trunk road structures; lighting columns and sign gantries. Additionally, the Division was responsible for the technical approval of local authority road structures that were receiving Transport Policies and Programme grants. These grants were given to local authorities to support Rate Support Grants and the grant amount reflected the scope of the transport policy and works programme of the local authority.

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