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Catalogue description Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers
| Reference: | WORK 26 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers |
| Description: |
This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War. |
| Date: | 1936-1951 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942 Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943 Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962 Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945 Office of Works, 1851-1940 Office of Works, Architects and Surveyors Division, 1902-1914 Office of Works, Architects Division, 1914-1920 Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940 Office of Works, Surveyors Division, 1901-1901 |
| Physical description: | 23 box(es) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
From the mid-1930s, the Office of Works and its successors undertook building work on an agency basis for the War Office and later for the Ministry of Supply, constructing ordnance factories and stores. From March 1941, the Ministry of Works acquired full responsibility for these and other major direct building schemes of the Ministry of Supply. |
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