Catalogue description Records of the Scientific Advisory Council and predecessor

Details of Division within SUPP
Reference: Division within SUPP
Title: Records of the Scientific Advisory Council and predecessor
Description:

Records of the Scientific Advisory Council and predecessor relating to responsibilities for advising on scientific and technical problems. Monographs on various aspects of research and development are in SUPP 22
Date: 1939-1952
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Christchurch, 1959-1970

Ministry of Supply, Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development, 1939-1946

Ministry of Supply, Scientific Advisory Council, 1946-1959
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

In December 1939 the Ministry of Supply established an Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development to consider and initiate new proposals for research and development, to review research and development already in progress and to advise on the most effective use of scientific personnel and generally on scientific and technical problems.

The council included senior officials of the ministry and other supply departments and of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and operated through a number of scientific members. In 1946 it was reconstituted as the Scientific Advisory Council with advisory boards dealing with different subjects or groups of subjects. In 1959 the council became the Scientific Advisory Council of the War Office.

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