Catalogue description Department of Industry,1974-1983, and successors: Computers, Systems and Electronic Division and predecessors; Computer Aided Design Centre Registered Files (CAD file series)
Reference: | PV 1 |
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Title: | Department of Industry,1974-1983, and successors: Computers, Systems and Electronic Division and predecessors; Computer Aided Design Centre Registered Files (CAD file series) |
Description: |
Registered files of the Computer Aided Design Centre. The files contain minutes of management meetings, papers on the Centre's organisation and privatisation in 1983. |
Date: | 1968-1983 |
Arrangement: |
The files are arranged in numerical order. |
Related material: |
See also FV 29 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | CAD file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Department of Industry, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1974-1983 Department of Trade and Industry, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1970-1974 Ministry of Technology, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1969-1970 |
Physical description: | 13 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2002 Department of Trade and Industry |
Selection and destruction information: | This series relates to sections 2.2.1.1 (formulation of policy and management of public resources) and 2.2.1.2 (management of the economy), of the Acquisition Policy and section 8.3.8 (Computers and Electronics) of the OSP on Industrial Policy. |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Computer Aided Design Centre was established in 1969 at Cambridge to develop computer-aided design (CAD) systems for chemical, mechanical, electrical, electronic and civil engineering, building, construction and industrial design. The Centre was linked to Cambridge University and its objective was to encourage industry to make use of CAD. |
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