Catalogue description Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Traffic Division: Registered Files

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Details of MT 113
Reference: MT 113
Title: Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Traffic Division: Registered Files
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Road Traffic Division. Matters covered include road traffic legislation, car parking, pedestrian crossings and London traffic congestion.

Files belonging to Road Traffic Division were registered under the prefix RTC and included re-registered files from the RLT and H(TS) series (otherwise in MT 108). Some files from the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee (otherwise in MT 37) have been re-registered in the RTC series .

Date: 1931-1968
Separated material:

Some files of the RTC series have been re-registered in the UT series: MT 137

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RTC Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Road Traffic Division, 1955-1959

Ministry of Transport, Road Safety (Traffic) Division, 1966-1970

Ministry of Transport, Road Traffic Division, 1959-1961

Physical description: 114 file(s)
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1985 to 1997 Department of Transport

Administrative / biographical background:

The Road Traffic Division was set up in 1955 when the Traffic Safety Division was dissolved and replaced by separate Road Safety and Road Traffic divisions. In 1961 Road Traffic Division was dissolved and its functions distributed between General Traffic, Road Safety, and London Traffic divisions.

The work of Road Traffic Division concerned the regulation of road traffic including parking places waiting restrictions, pedestrian crossings, road signs and traffic signals, one-way traffic systems, speed limits and weight restrictions. It was also concerned with the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.

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