Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation, predecessors and successors: Royal Radar Establishment (later Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) and predecessors: Reports and Memoranda

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Reference: AVIA 26
Title: Ministry of Aviation, predecessors and successors: Royal Radar Establishment (later Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) and predecessors: Reports and Memoranda
Description:

This series consists of reports, memoranda and technical notes prepared by the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) (from 1976, the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE)), and by its predecessors the Air Defence Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), the Radar Research and Development Establishment (RRDE) and the Telecommunications Research Establishment.

No records of the Services Valve Life Testing Establishment 1936-1952 appear to have survived

Date: 1921-1991
Related material:

For Admiralty Signal School 1917-1941, Admiralty Signals Establishment 1941-1948, Admiralty Signals and Radar Establishment 1948-1959,Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment 1959-1984 see ADM 220

For Services Electronics Research Laboratory 1945-1976 and Services Valve Testing Laboratory 1952-1962 see ADM 272

For Air Defence Research and Development Establishment 1941-1944 see WO 291

For Royal Radar Establishment 1957-1976 and Royal Signals and Radar Establishment 1976-1990 see DEFE 35

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

Air Defence Research and Development Establishment, 1941-1944

Radar Research and Development Establishment, 1944-1953

Radar Research Establishment, 1953-1957

Royal Radar Establishment, 1957-1976

Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, 1976-1991

Telecommunication Research Establishment, 1940-1953

Physical description: 2294 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1970 Ministry of Aviation Supply

Accruals: Series is accruing.

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