Catalogue description Records of the Communications Department

Details of Division within CO
Reference: Division within CO
Title: Records of the Communications Department
Description:

Records of the Communications Department relating to colonial communications matters.

Correspondence of the Communications Department between 1943 and 1961 is in CO 937, with registers in CO 973
Date: 1944-1961
Related material:

For records relating to the Department's work as part of the Department of Technical Co-operation, and again in the Colonial Office after 1965 see OD 23
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Colonial Office, Communications Department, 1943-1961
Physical description: 2 series
Administrative / biographical background:

Before August 1943 all colonial business relating to communications matters was dealt with by the General Division, but at that date a Communications Department was established to be responsible for posts and telecommunications, civil aviation, road transport and merchant shipping. In 1947 responsibility for shipping was transferred to the Commercial Relations and Supplies Department. By 1949 it had become part of an Economic Division. It was transferred to the Department of Technical Co-operation in 1961 and thence to the Ministry of Overseas Development but re-established within the Economic Division of the Colonial Office in 1965 and absorbed by the Commonwealth Office in 1966.

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