Catalogue description Private Office Papers

This series consists of papers surviving from the Private Offices of various ministers and senior officials in the Ministries of Transport, Shipping and War Transport. They include the papers of:

Wilfrid Ashley, later Baron Mount Temple, as Minister of Transport, 1924 to 1929;

Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport, 1941 to 1945; and as Secretary of State for Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, 1951-1953;

Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport, 1945 to 1946, and Minister of Transport, 1946 to 1951;

Sir Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministries of Shipping and War Transport, 1939 to 1941, and Head of the British Merchant Shipping Mission, Washington, 1941 to 1943;

and Sir Cyril Hurcomb, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1927 to 1937.

The series also contains minutes of meetings of the Shipping (Operation) Control, 1941 to 1946.

In 1979 Department of Transport