Board of Trade

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1786-1970
History:	Created in by an Order in Council of 23 August 1786 to replace Privy Council Committee on Trade and Plantations. Became concerned with all aspects of trade until merged on 20 October 1970 with the Ministry of Technology to form the first Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	PROGuide; IC; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C277033

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1886-1955: Ministry of Labour and Predecessors: Correspondence	The National Archives, Kew	LAB 2
2	1698-1913: Board of Agriculture and predecessors: Miscellaneous Statistics	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 7
3	1791-1959: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Corn Returns	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 10
4	1866-1988: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Statistics Divisions: Parish Summaries of Agricultural Returns	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 68
5	1613-1939: Ramsgate Harbour: Deeds, Evidences and Plans	The National Archives, Kew	MT 21
6	1749-1937: Ramsgate Harbour Accounts, Correspondence, Minutes etc.	The National Archives, Kew	MT 22
7	1862-1973: Highways: Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MT 39
8	1898-2002: Department of Energy and predecessors: Electrical Division and predecessors: Registered Files, (EL and GE Series)	The National Archives, Kew	POWE 14
9	1899-1964: Ministry of Power, Electricity Division, and Predecessors: Electricity Registers of Consents and Special Orders	The National Archives, Kew	POWE 15
10	1913-1968: Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	POWE 22
11	1902-1970: Board of Trade and Successors: Mines Department and Successors: 'A' Files	The National Archives, Kew	POWE 26
12	1877-1982: Department of Energy and predecessors: Gas Division: Registered Files (GAS file series)	The National Archives, Kew	POWE 29
13	1874-1955: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport Proceedings under Railway and Canal Traffic Acts 1854-1894.	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1038
14	1919-1947: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport: Statistics	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1044
15	1920-1930: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport Proceedings before Rates Advisory Committee	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1052
16	1840-1975: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport: Reports and Returns	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1053
17	1897-1926: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport: Light Railway Orders	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1054
18	1897-1931: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport Light Railway Orders (York Collection)	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1055
19	1882-1924: Board of Trade Railway Department and Ministry of Transport: Reports on Working of Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890	The National Archives, Kew	RAIL 1056
20	1945-1993: Records created or inherited by the Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974, and successors	The National Archives, Kew	FV
21	1914-1920: Treasury: Books of Out-letters to Board of Trade	The National Archives, Kew	T 142
22	1921-1948: Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files: Board of Trade Series	The National Archives, Kew	TS 34
23	1967-1970: Office of Lord Brown (Wilfred Brown), Minister of State, Board of Trade	The National Archives, Kew	BT 378
24	1832-1995: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air Registration Board, and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	AVIA
25	1836-2003: Records of departments responsible for labour and employment matters and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	LAB
26	1850-1998: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Power, and of related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	POWE
27	1791-1863: Board of Trade: General In-letters and Files	The National Archives, Kew	BT 1
28	1824-1845: Board of Trade: In-letters, Foreign Office	The National Archives, Kew	BT 2
29	1786-1863: Board of Trade: General Out-letters	The National Archives, Kew	BT 3
30	1808-1864: Board of Trade: General Registers and Indexes	The National Archives, Kew	BT 4
31	1784-1952: Board of Trade: Minutes	The National Archives, Kew	BT 5
32	1697-1921: Board of Trade: Miscellanea	The National Archives, Kew	BT 6
33	1851-1853: Board of Trade: Maps	The National Archives, Kew	BT 9
34	1846-1895: Board of Trade: Registry Indexes to Papers Retained	The National Archives, Kew	BT 19
35	1860-1979: Board of Trade and successors: Solicitor's Department and successors: Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	BT 103
36	1887-1966: Board of Trade: Parliamentary Branch: Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	BT 132
37	1917-1939: Board of Trade: Confidential Reports on Activities	The National Archives, Kew	BT 196
38	1917-1927: Board of Trade Council: Minutes and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	BT 198
39	1890-1992: Board of Trade and successors: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and successors: Registered Files: (OPB Series)	The National Archives, Kew	BT 229
40	1922-2014: Ministry of Transport: Marine Department: Registered Files: Marine Safety Branch (MS Series) and Marine Safety Agency (MSA series)	The National Archives, Kew	BT 239
41	1960-1981: Board of Trade and Successors: Posts and Telecommunications Division and predecessors: Registered Files (CLB Series)	The National Archives, Kew	BT 363
42	1849-1981: Board of Trade: Specimens of Series of Documents Destroyed	The National Archives, Kew	BT 900
43	1972-1999: Records created or inherited by the Department of Trade, 1974-1983, and successors	The National Archives, Kew	PJ
44	1697-2002: Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	BT
45	1654-1803: Records of Board of Trade responsibilities for colonial affairs before 1801
46	1595-1984: Records of the Chief Clerk's and General Departments
47	1969-1992: Board of Trade and Civil Aviation Authority: Research and Development Programme Reports	The National Archives, Kew	DR 95
48	1904-1948: Board of Trade and Department of Overseas Trade: Imperial Institute, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 26

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Department of Trade and Industry	Successor/Predecessor		See Also
2	Ministry of Technology	Successor/Predecessor		See Also