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Catalogue description Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Telecommunications Directorate, Air Traffic Services Branch: Registered Files (ATS Series)
| Reference: | BT 370 |
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| Title: | Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Telecommunications Directorate, Air Traffic Services Branch: Registered Files (ATS Series) |
| Description: |
This series provides a representative picture of the functions and work of the Telecommunications Directorate, Air Traffic Services branch relating to its responsibility for civil aviation telecommunications policy and its implementation in the UK including the provision, operation and efficiency of landing radio and radar facilities of all kinds. The records also reflect the directorate's role in testing technical communications equipment. Of particular interest will be files concerning controller / pilot error in airmiss incidents in UK airspace. |
| Date: | 1969-1973 |
| Arrangement: |
Registered file order by transfer. |
| Related material: |
For files of the Civil Aviation Authority Telecommunications Directorate (TELS and FD Series) see DR 39 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | ATS file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Trade, Telecommunications Directorate (Air Traffic Services), 1969-1970 Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications Directorate (Air Traffic Services), 1970-1972 |
| Physical description: | 8 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions |
| Custodial history: | Transferred to the Department of the Environment in 1972, the Department of Transport in 1976 and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997. |
| Accumulation dates: | 1969-1972 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Policy files have been selected. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Telecommunications Directorate, Air Traffic Services branch was mainly responsible for civil aviation telecommunications policy and its implementation in the UK. The directorate also played an important liaison role involving delegate participation with the International Civil Aviation Organisation and the Committee for European Airspace Co-ordination to which it gave technical assistance and advice. In 1972 the functions of the directorate were transferred to the newly created Civil Aviation Authority. |
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