Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: WORK 26
Title: Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War.

Date: 1936-1951
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943

Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962

Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945

Office of Works, 1851-1940

Office of Works, Architects and Surveyors Division, 1902-1914

Office of Works, Architects Division, 1914-1920

Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940

Office of Works, Surveyors Division, 1901-1901

Physical description: 23 box(es)
Access conditions: Open
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

From the mid-1930s, the Office of Works and its successors undertook building work on an agency basis for the War Office and later for the Ministry of Supply, constructing ordnance factories and stores. From March 1941, the Ministry of Works acquired full responsibility for these and other major direct building schemes of the Ministry of Supply.

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