Catalogue description Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain and Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency: Records

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Reference: BE 2
Title: Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain and Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency: Records
Description:

This series contains registered files created by the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain (ISCGB), and the Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency (ISHRA). Files selected contain papers relating to accounts, banking arrangements, finance, staff and taxation matters relating to iron and steel companies; papers of policy and historical interest relating to matters with which the ISCGB and ISHRA were concerned; companies files, and personal files of members of staff.

An index to the ISCGB registered files forms BE 2/1, with a similar index to the papers of the ISHRA in BE 2/630

Date: 1937-1967
Arrangement:

Files of a general nature, which do not relate to the affairs or activities of any particular company, are grouped under subject headings.

Files relating to a particular company while it remained in public ownership are listed alphabetically; a subsidiary company may be shown under its own name or under the heading of its parent.

Related material:

Records of the Iron and Steel Division in Division within POWE

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

Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, 1950-1953

Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency, 1953-1967

Physical description: 630 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: These papers passed to the Treasury when the Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency (ISHRA) was wound up in 1967.

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