Catalogue description Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport): Papers

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Reference: BT 193
Title: Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport): Papers
Description:

This series contains papers of the Ministry of Transport's Commercial Services Division.

Matters dealt with include exports policy, tonnage requirements, freight rates, flag discrimination, passenger travel, shipping documents, overseas ports and docks, USA and Canadian shipping legislation as it affected British shipping, etc. There are also minutes, papers etc. of various shipping committees and working parties, some of an inter-governmental nature.

Also included in this series are a few post-1960 papers of the Foreign Shipping Relations Division.

Date: 1944-1964
Related material:

Earlier files of the Commercial Services Division will be found in MT 59

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

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Commercial Services Division, 1953-1959

Ministry of Transport, Commercial Services Division, 1946-1953

Ministry of Transport, Foreign Shipping Relations Division, 1960-1965

Ministry of War Transport, Commercial Services Division, 1941-1946

Physical description: 166 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: Transferred from the Ministry of Transport in February 1965 to the Board of Trade.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Board of Trade took over the merchant shipping and shipbuilding functions from the Ministry of Transport in February 1965.

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