Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Engineering Intelligence (EI Series) Files

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Reference: MT 156
Title: Transport Ministries: Engineering Intelligence (EI Series) Files
Description:

This series consisits of records concerning the Engineering Intelligence Division's provision of comprehensive information on all aspects of highway and traffic engineering work and its responsibility for formulating specifications for methods and materials used in road construction. The series also includes files on the Division's experimental work on soils and road materials for which it liaised with the Road Research Laboratory and the British Standards Institute. It includes some records of the Highways Standards Committee.
Date: 1964-1982
Arrangement:

By former reference order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EINT and EID series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Engineering Intelligence Division, 1970-1988

Ministry of Transport, Engineering Intelligence Division, 1964-1970
Physical description: 118 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Department of Transport
Custodial history: Transferred from Ministry of Transport to Department of the Environment in 1970. Transferred from Department of the Environment to Department of Transport in 1988. Division remained the same throughout.
Accumulation dates: EINT file series ran from 1964 to 1968/9
Selection and destruction information: Policy and precedent files selected for permanent preservation.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Engineering and Intelligence Division was created in response to a review on the use and recruitment of the Ministry of Transport's highways engineers. The Division was organised into three sections; Specifications, Information and the Computer Team.

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