Catalogue description Iron and Steel Board Records

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Reference: BE 1
Title: Iron and Steel Board Records
Description:

Records created and inherited by the Iron and Steel Board including items from the Chairman's Office, Development Division, Finance Division, Secretariat and Technical Division, and comprising minutes, company files, correspondence files, capital and profit returns and running cost returns.

Date: 1945-1968
Related material:

Records of the Iron and Steel Division in Division within POWE

For records relating to the European Coal and Steel Community and the Board of Trade's Tariff Division see BT 205

For the records of the Iron and Steel Division of the Ministry of Power see BT 255

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1147 files and rolls
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Iron and Steel Board was given general authority over the iron and steel companies, and in particular over their investment programmes and finances. It was to promote efficiency by vetting development plans in the context of an overall strategy for the industry, although it was unable to plan new capacity, withdraw old capacity or to reorganise the companies into larger groups. These powers were thus largely negative. The board also represented the industry within the European Coal and Steel Community. It had a number of internal administrative divisions, including the Chairman's Office, a Secretariat, the Development Division, the Finance Division and the Technical Division.

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