Catalogue description Ministry of Transport: Goods Vehicle Stations Branch: Registered Files

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Reference: MT 165
Title: Ministry of Transport: Goods Vehicle Stations Branch: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Goods Vehicle Stations Branch. The files concern matters relating to administrative planning for heavy goods vehicle testing and plating schemes. All files selected have been re-registered from the VR series.

Date: 1962-1967
Arrangement:

Previous reference order

Related material:

Files containing information on goods vehicle testing and plating are in MT 102

Separated material:

Other registered files in the VR series can be found in MT 98

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GVS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport, Driving and Vehicle Planning Group, 1966-1969

Ministry of Transport, Goods Vehicle Stations Branch, 1959-1969

Ministry of Transport, Road Transport (Goods) Division, 1963-1970

Ministry of Transport, Vehicle Regulation Division, 1959-1965

Physical description: 4 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Custodial history: Transferred to Department of Transport in 1970 and Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions in 1997
Accumulation dates: 1962-1967
Selection and destruction information: All records are policy files, and are the only files to have survived. A small number dealing with routine maters have been destroyed.
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Goods Vehicle Stations Branch (GSVB) originated in the Road Transport Goods Division (RTG), from which it was separated in 1966. Thereafter the GSVB formed part of a new Driving and Vehicle Planning Group, which operated from 1966 to 1969. In 1969 it became part of the Vehicle Inspection Division. GSVB was responsible for the administrative planning of the heavier goods vehicle testing scheme and plating.

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