Catalogue description Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Admiralty Oil Laboratory: Reports

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Details of ADM 289
Reference: ADM 289
Title: Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Admiralty Oil Laboratory: Reports
Description:

This series consists of reports of the Admiralty Oil Laboratory, set up to improve the quality control on fuels and lubricants. The series also contains annual reports of the Admiralty Fuel Experimental Station.

Date: 1948-1976
Related material:

Records of the Admiralty Fuels and Lubricants Advisory Committee are in ADM 308

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Admiralty Oil Laboratory, 1953-1977

Physical description: 183 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

Ministry of Defence

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Admiralty Oil Laboratory was set up in 1953 to improve the quality control of naval fuels, lubricants, and hydraulic fluids, but concentrated mainly on the technology of petroleum-based hydrocarbons. In 1977 it was absorbed into the National Gas Turbine Establishment, then in 1980 it became the Petroleum Technology Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment

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