Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Motorway Services Area (MSAB Series) Files

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Reference: MT 158
Title: Transport Ministries: Motorway Services Area (MSAB Series) Files
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Motorway Services Area Branch and successors relating to government policy regarding the establishment and maintenance of motorway service areas and related matters. Some files of the Highways Special Roads Division are re-registered into this series.
Date: 1960-1991
Arrangement:

By previous reference order by transfer.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MSAB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1970-1976

Department of Transport, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1976-1982

Ministry of Transport, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1969-1970
Physical description: 106 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred to Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Accumulation dates: 1969 onwards
Selection and destruction information: Records of the Motorway Services Area Branch concerning policy and precedent, and those records of a controversial nature have been preserved. Routine records on leasing have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

With the growth of motorways service areas, it became necessary to establish more formal arrangements for determining policy as to their establishment and maintenance. In 1969 the Motorway Service Area Branch (MSAB) was established as a separate entity of, successively, the Ministry of Transport, the Department of the Environment, and the Department of Transport. In 1982 MSAB's work was incorporated into the Highways Lands and Services Division, in 1991 into the Highways Agency, and in 1994 into Highways Agency (Network General and Maintenance Division).

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