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Catalogue description War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts: Works Contract Precedent Books
| Reference: | WORK 52 |
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| Title: | War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts: Works Contract Precedent Books |
| Description: |
This series consists of two volumes covering the period 1914-1946. They contain contract precedents, entries of contracts for various types of building works, including bills of quantity, specifications, estimates, labour, Treasury decisions, claims, compensation and damages, depressed areas and other special allocations. The entries are in manuscript and are in the form either of a brief description of the precedent, or a definition of the precedent with a contracts file number reference. |
| Date: | 1914-1946 |
| Related material: |
Volumes of a similar nature but dealing with supplies contracts may be found in WO 254 |
| Separated material: |
Later volumes are not known to have survived. The contracts files also seem to have been destroyed. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
War Office, Department of the Surveyor General of Supply, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1917-1924 War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1907-1917 War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1936-1964 War Office, Financial Secretary, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1924-1936 |
| Physical description: | 2 volume(s) |
| Custodial history: | These volumes originated in the War Office Directorate of Contracts and were probably transferred to the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works in 1963. They do not appear to have been previously transferred to the Ministry of Supply when it took over the War Office Directorate of Contracts in 1939. |
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