Catalogue description Ministry of Supply: Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria: Reports and Memoranda
Reference: | AVIA 45 |
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Title: | Ministry of Supply: Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria: Reports and Memoranda |
Description: |
Reports and memoranda on the susceptibility of equipment and materials to deterioration under tropical conditions, and quarterly reports on the work of the Tropical Testing Establishment from 1948 to 1958. |
Date: | 1945-1968 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria, 1944-1958 |
Physical description: | 816 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1977 Ministry of Defence |
Custodial history: | The reports in this series do not constitute a complete consecutive run; they are however all that were received from Tropical Testing Establishment upon its closure |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
In August 1944 a combined War Office/Ministry of Supply mission visited West Africa to explore facilities for storage and exposure tests on service equipment for use in the tropics. As a result, the West African Tropical Testing Establishment (W.A.T.T.E.) was established in Nigeria, with its headquarters at Lagos and main testing area at Port Harcourt. A similar unit, specialising in the testing of signals and radar equipment (S.R.T.T.E.) and administered by the Ministry of Supply was already in existence in Nigeria, and in April 1946 the two establishments were merged into a single organisation, the Tropical Testing Establishment, administered by the joint Ministry of Supply and Aircraft Production. It continued the work of testing a wide range of service equipment and packing until it closed in September 1958. Residual reports on outstanding matters were subsequently issued by the Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aviation up until 1961. |
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