Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch (HECB Series) Files

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Reference: MT 154
Title: Transport Ministries: Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch (HECB Series) Files
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Computer Branch of the Highways Engineering Division.
Date: 1965-1985
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HECB Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1970-1976

Department of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1976-1994

Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1965-1970
Physical description: 12 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Selection and destruction information: Files concerning the origins of the branch, the introduction of computers in highway engineering design, and research projects, have been selected. Files of a general administrative nature have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Highways Engineering Computer Branch was established in 1965. Its main functions were: to appraise the use of computers in road design; to develop and maintain computer programs required by the road programme; to examine all programs submitted for approval; and to promote increased informed usage of computer design in all aspopects of highway design.

The branch was abolished in 1985 and its functions were overtaken by the Structural Approval Signs and Lighting Division.

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