Catalogue description Ministry of Transport and successors, Highways Traffic and Safety Division

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Reference: MT 108
Title: Ministry of Transport and successors, Highways Traffic and Safety Division
Description:

This series includes registered files relating to road traffic legislation, accidents and driving tests. There are also papers of the Committee on Road Safety.

The H(TS) series started in 1949 but the present series covers in the main the period between 1946 and 1956 when the division came under the Highways Administration.
Date: 1937-1956
Separated material:

Some files from this series have been re-registered into the RTC series in MT 113
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: H/TS Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways (Traffic and Safety) Division, 1953-1956

Ministry of Transport, Highways (Traffic and Safety) Division, 1949-1953

Ministry of Transport, Highways Administration Division, 1946-1953
Physical description: 42 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1981 Department of Transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The Highways (Traffic and Safety) Division dealt with road traffic regulations and restrictions, and considered road safety policy and propaganda. It provided the Secretariat for the Departmental Committee on Road Safety and carried out the management of Road Fund grants for approved road safety schemes conducted by local authorities. The division was concerned with the Road Traffic Acts in connection with driving tests and driving licences, as well as administering the closure of roads under various acts.

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