Records of divisions of the Finance Department. They include material relating to taxation, government borrowing and lending, preparation of Estimates and money bills, debt, reparations, banking, foreign exchange, audit, gifts to the nation, Civil List, coronation of George VI, sanctions against Italy.
Some files contain departmental estimates and 'Blue Notes'.
Although the earliest papers date back to 1887, the overwhelming majority relate to the inter-war years, the Second World War and the post-war years up to 1948.
The files in T 160 were registered under one or more of the following alphabetical subject headings:
Accommodation/ Agriculture/ Arbitration/ Arms/ Charities/ Civil Unrest/ Committees/ Communications/ Compensation/ Consular/ Contracts/ Correspondence/ Crown Estates/ Countries/ Departmental Functions/ Deportation/ Development/ Ecclesiastical/ Education/ Elections/ Electricity/ Entertainments/ Escheat/ Establishments/ Exhibitions/ Fighting Services/ Finance/ Fires/ Forestry/ Friendly Societies/ Funerals/ Housing/ Institutions and Societies/ Insurance/ Inventions/ Labour/ Land/ Law/ Liquor/ Livestock/ Losses/ Lunacy/ Materials/ Medical/ Mines/ Missions/ Monuments/ Parliament/ Passports/ Pensions/ Photography/ Police/ Prisons/ Prize Courts/ Prize Vessels/ Publicity/ Records/ Recreation/ Refugees/ Research/ Rewards and Gifts/ Rewards/ Royal Family/ Scientific Investigations/ Seals/ Signatures/ Standards/ Stationery/ Statistics/ Trade/ Treasury/ War.