Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Trunk and Principal Roads Administration (TPRA Series) Files

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Details of MT 187
Reference: MT 187
Title: Transport Ministries: Trunk and Principal Roads Administration (TPRA Series) Files
Description:

This series comprises files of the Ministry of Transport and successors' Trunk and Principal Roads Administration. The records relate to the delegation and devolution of work from headquarters to divisional road engineers.

Includes files reregistered from the HG series (MT 127) and the HN series (MT 100).
Date: 1969-1976
Arrangement:

The records are arranged in original reference order within each transfer.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: TPRA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Highways Divisions, 1970-1976

Department of the Environment, Local Government and Development, 1971-1971

Department of Transport, Highways Planning and Management Division, 1976-1977

Department of Transport, Highways Programming, Contacts and Lands Division, 1977-1979

Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970
Physical description: 14 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2002 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Accumulation dates: Series ran 1971-1979
Selection and destruction information: Files relating to the development of policy or those of special interest have been selected for permanent preservation. Case files on construction, road improvement and planning blight have not been preserved unless they meet the criteria above.
Accruals: The series will accrue but the rate of accrual is not yet known
Administrative / biographical background:

The Trunk and Principal Roads Administration (TPRA) was the headquarters unit with administrative responsibility for highways matters handled by divisional road engineers. TPRA was established in 1971 and ceased to exist at the end of 1973 when it was absorbed into Highways Management Division. Its sister division Trunk and Principal Roads Engineering (TPRE) had responsibility for highways engineering matters and existed for the same period.

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