Catalogue description Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors

Details of Division within SUPP
Reference: Division within SUPP
Title: Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors
Description:

Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors relating to responsibilities for contracts. Contract record books are in SUPP 4.
Date: 1922-1958
Related material:

Contract files are in AVIA 53
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Supply, Contracts Directorate, 1939-1947

Ministry of Supply, Contracts Division, 1947-1959

War Office, Department of the Surveyor General of Supply, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1917-1924

War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1907-1917

War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1936-1964

War Office, Financial Secretary, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1924-1936

War Office, Master General of the Ordnance, Contracts Section, 1904-1907
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

When the Ministry of Supply was established in August 1939 it took over responsibility for munitions contracts and most of the Directorate of Army Contracts from the War Office. This became the Contracts Directorate (and from 1947) Division of the ministry, under the superintendence of the permanent secretary.

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