Catalogue description Air Ministry, Directorate General of Works and Buildings and successors: Branch Folders

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Details of WORK 53
Reference: WORK 53
Title: Air Ministry, Directorate General of Works and Buildings and successors: Branch Folders
Description:

Most pieces in this series are concerned with experiments on paved runways and with the construction of runways at selected RAF stations and airfields in the United Kingdom and abroad. The first of these runways (also called all-weather runways and airfield pavements) was built in the late 1930s as a result of the introduction of heavier aircraft. By 1942 virtually every airfield built for the RAF in Britain had paved runways.

Date: 1946-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Air Ministry, Directorate of Works, 1937-1963

Air Ministry, Directorate of Works and Buildings, 1918-1937

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967

Physical description: 43 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1983 Department of the Environment

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