Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and successors: Registered Files: (OPB Series)

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Reference: BT 229
Title: Board of Trade and successors: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and successors: Registered Files: (OPB Series)
Description:

Files of the Board of Trade's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and its successors relating mainly to Universal Postal Union and overseas telegraph matters; there are also some files relating to Cable and Wireless Limited.
Date: 1890-1992
Related material:

Further telecommunications filles are in:

Further Post records are in POST

TCB

TCC

TCD

TCK

For other GPO files inherited by the Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessors, see FV 4
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: OPB
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, 1786-1970

Board of Trade, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, 1969-1974

Department of Industry, Posts and Telecommunications Division, 1974-1983

Department of Industry, Space and the Post Office Division, 1983-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Space, the Post Office and Films Division, 1983-1986

Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications and Posts Division, 1986-1994
Physical description: 93 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1980 Department of Trade and Industry
Custodial history: The files in this series came to the Department of Industry as a result of the transfer of ministerial responsibility.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1969 the General Post Office ceased to be a Government Department and became a Public Corporation. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was formed to deal with residual Government functions, and in 1974 this Ministry was dissolved and its functions split between the Home Office and the Department of Industry, Industry becoming responsible for sponsorship for the Post Office and Cable and Wireless Ltd., and for international relations on postal and telecommunications policy.

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