Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and successors: Laboratory: Registered Files (WS and other Series)

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Title: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and successors: Laboratory: Registered Files (WS and other Series)
Description:

This series comprises reports, minutes and subject files on various aspects of the Warren Spring Laboratory's work. Among the subjects covered are fuel research, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, atmospheric pollution, mineral processing, and oil pollution on beaches including the Torrey Canyon disaster.

Some pieces are re-registered Department of Scientific and Industrial Research files.
Date: 1957-1994
Related material:

For further files relating to Warren Spring Laboratory see FV 10
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WS and other file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 320 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: When the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was wound up, many of its HQ files were distributed to the various research stations and laboratories to become part of those institutions' records, and this series contains both inherited DSIR files and records whose origin was in the station itself. When the laboratory closed most current files were transferred to the National Environmental Technology Centre (NECTEN).
Accruals: No future accruals expected.

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