Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: Industries Division 1 and Chemicals and Textiles Division: Registered Files ( IND 1 (P, G and R Suffix) Series)

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Reference: BT 344
Title: Board of Trade and successors: Industries Division 1 and Chemicals and Textiles Division: Registered Files ( IND 1 (P, G and R Suffix) Series)
Description:

This series contains policy, general and record files of the Industries Division and its successors.

The files concern the state of the British textile industry, overseas trade and the rubber industry.

The series includes re-registered files which would otherwise be found amongst the records of the Department of Trade and Industry (FV) division: Records of the Industrial and the Industrial and Commercial Policy Divisions and Groups.

Date: 1967-1975
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IND 1 (P, G and R Suffix) files series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Industries Division 1, 1968-1969

Department of Trade and Industry, Chemicals and Textiles Division, 1970-1974

Ministry of Technology, Chemicals and Textiles Division, 1969-1970

Physical description: 69 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Responsibilities of the Industries Division branches were briefly transferred to the Ministry of Technology in 1969, before passing to the newly created Department of Trade and Industry in 1970. Industries Division 1 was responsible for matters concerning commodities, mainly textiles, leather, flax, hemp, jute, chemicals and tobacco.

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