Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Industry: Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division and successors: Registered Files (ZU Series)

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Title: Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Industry: Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division and successors: Registered Files (ZU Series)
Description:

These files relate to the sponsorship of research into, development of, and application of tribology. Some have been re-registered from the ITSA, MU and ZB series used by the Ministry of Technology and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Date: 1969-1974
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ZU file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 19 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

In September 1966 the Minister of Technology (Mintech) set up the Committee on Tribology (COT) to advise on measures to effect technological progress and economic savings in the sphere of tribology (the science and technology of interacting surfaces ie. the study of friction, wear, lubrication and bearing design). The COT was eventually terminated in September 1974.

One of the COT sub-committees formed was the Tribology Research and Liaison Committee, created to promote and coordinate research in various centres where tribology was being pursued. This committee was reconstituted in 1969 to include a new advisory function in addition to its wider terms of reference.

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