Catalogue description Ministry of Supply: Registered Files

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Details of AVIA 22
Reference: AVIA 22
Title: Ministry of Supply: Registered Files
Description:

Files of the Ministry of Supply which relate to functions not transferred to the War Office in 1959 and inherited by the Ministry of Aviation.

Date: 1933-1962
Arrangement:

The series list is arranged by a code which corresponds to the primary element of the original departmental file number and represents a subject. So, for example, code 210 stands for Area Organisation, and code 234 stands for Guided Projectiles Research and Development. This code may be found as part of the former reference in the right hand of the list. For example, the first piece in the list has the former reference 200/ALL/456. The code is 200 which stands for the subject Central Priority Department.

Related material:

For further files in the 260, 314, 315 and 321 series see:

For further files in the 200 series see: BT 28

POWE 5

SUPP 14

Other files in the 200 series are in: T 246

For files relating to functions which were transferred to the War Office see WO 185

Separated material:

Files from this series covering functions transferred to the War Office in 1959 were re-registered in the Ministry of Supply branch registry files in

WO 286

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

Ministry of Aviation, 1959-1967

Ministry of Supply, 1939-1959

Physical description: 3337 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

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