Catalogue description Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Ministry of Aviation (AV Yearly Series)

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Reference: TS 65
Title: Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Ministry of Aviation (AV Yearly Series)
Description:

Selected records from a single series of registered files of the Treasury Solicitor relating to work on behalf of the Ministry of Aviation. The series is prefixed with AV ('Aviation').

The files illustrate the legal aspects of the work undertaken, such as investigations of aircraft accidents and submissions to the Committee on Civil Aircraft Accidents (Cairns Committee), investigations of infringements of patents, disputes over royalties, appeals under the air operators' certificate regulations, questions relating to London (Heathrow) airport, development of the Concorde aircraft (the Anglo-French agreement), government intervention in the aircraft industry following the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Aircraft Industry (Plowden Committee), and questions arising from contracts with suppliers.
Date: 1952-1975
Arrangement:

The files are arranged by their original file references, based on a consecutive numbering system.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AV (yearly) file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 1876-
Physical description: 121 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

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