Catalogue description Ministry of Technology and successors: Electronics and Computers Division and successors: Registered Files (LK Series)

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Title: Ministry of Technology and successors: Electronics and Computers Division and successors: Registered Files (LK Series)
Description:

These files concern telecommunications, particularly radio and television broadcast and receiving apparatus, and the export and import of equipment used in the radio and television industries. The files show signs of re-registration from the LC files prefix (HF 10) used by the Ministry of Technology's Electronics and Instrumentation (L) Division.
Date: 1967-1987
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LK file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Computers, Systems and Electronics Division, 1974-1980

Department of Industry, Information Technology Division, 1980-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Computers, Systems and Electronics Division, 1971-1974

Department of Trade and Industry, Electronics and Computers Division, 1970-1971

Ministry of Technology, Computers Division, 1966-1969

Ministry of Technology, Electronics and Computers Division, 1969-1970
Physical description: 43 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1996 Department of Trade and Industry
Accumulation dates: 1970-1983
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Electronics and Computers (LC) Division was established in the Ministry of Technology (Mintech) in 1969. In 1970 it was transferred to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). In October 1971, LC Division was merged with Systems and Automation (SA) Division to form Computers, Systems and Electronics (CSE) Division. In 1974, CSE Division was transferred to the Department of Industry where, in 1980, it was retitled the Information Technology (IT) Division.

The functions of the LC Division and its successors involved industrial and technological sponsorship of the electronics industry, including telecommunications and latterly the computer industry.

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