Board of Trade, Standards Department

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Date:	1922-1957
History:	Responsibilities related to the verification of standards and the advising of other governments using the same standards. In 1957 it became the Standard Weights and Measures Department.
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	IC; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C278228

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1952-1975: Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports of Local Authorities	The National Archives, Kew	BT 184
2	1829-1984: Records of the Standards, Weights and Measures Departments