Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation Supply and successors: Air D Division and successors: Registered Files (ET Series)

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Reference: FV 30
Title: Ministry of Aviation Supply and successors: Air D Division and successors: Registered Files (ET Series)
Description:

Contains registered files relating to the oversight of Rolls Royce before and after its nationalisation in 1971, generated by successive divisions within the Ministry of Aviation Supply, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Industry. Subjects covered include the establishment of Rolls Royce (1971) Ltd as a nationalised company, relations with its receivers, relations with the National Enterprise Board, the valuation of its assets, its finances, appointments, and engine production. A small number of papers were copied or re-registered into this series from earlier files of the Ministry of Technology.
Date: 1967-1988
Arrangement:

The ET file series originated in the Ministry of Aviation Supply in either late 1970 or, more probably, early 1971. Although there are some earlier Mintech papers on the files, the ET prefix does not seem to have been used by Mintech. There is a small amount of re-registration from Air C Division's XN prefix but other Mintech papers are copies from other files.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ET file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Air Division, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Air 3 Division, 1971-1972

Department of Trade and Industry, Air Division, 1972-1974

Ministry of Aviation Supply, Air D Division, 1970-1971
Physical description: 124 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1995 Department of Trade and Industry
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Air D Division resided in the Ministry of Aviation Supply (MAS) from October 1970 until May 1971, when the MAS was closed down and the division transferred to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Within DTI, the division was first known as Air 3 Division and from 1972 as Air Division. In 1974 Air Division became part of the Department of Industry (DoI) and since 1983 when DoI was amalgamated with the Department of Trade, Air Division has been located within the second DTI. In 1990 Air Division was renamed the Air Task Force and in 1992 it became known as Aerospace Division.

The Air 3 Division of the first DTI dealt exclusively with matters relating to Rolls Royce, whilst the concerns of the Air Division of the DoI and the second DTI shifted away from relations with the Rolls Royce receiver towards government relations with Rolls Royce (1971) Ltd as a nationally owned company.

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