Catalogue description Admiralty: Norfolk Flax Limited: files

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Reference: BT 200
Title: Admiralty: Norfolk Flax Limited: files
Description:

This series contains files relating to the changes made in administrative arrangements when the Admiralty took over control of Norfolk Flax Limited on behalf of the Ministry of Supply.
Date: 1929-1941
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Admiralty, 1832-1964
Physical description: 14 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1939 the Admiralty, acting as agent for the Ministry of Supply, took over the Linen Industry Research Association's Norfolk Flax Experimental Station, which was controlled by a small limited company, Norfolk Flax Ltd.

The Flax Control was established by the Ministry of Supply in 1939, the first Controller being Sir Harry Lindsay, Director of the Imperial Institute. It was the sole buyer and seller in the United Kingdom and also regulated the spinning, weaving and processing of flax, including tow and yarn, together with the price of some flax products. Responsibility passed to the Board of Trade in 1946, and the control was abolished in 1949, its existing stocks dispersed by the Directorate of Flax Disposals, whose work was completed in 1951.

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