Catalogue description Ministry of Production and Board of Trade: Supplies to Liberated Areas Secretariat: Files

Search within or browse this series to find specific records of interest.

Date range

Details of BT 25
Reference: BT 25
Title: Ministry of Production and Board of Trade: Supplies to Liberated Areas Secretariat: Files
Description:

Files of the Supplies to Liberated Areas Secretariat of the Ministry of Production, to 1945, and thereafter of the Supplies to Liberated Areas Division of the Board of Trade.
Date: 1944-1948
Related material:

For records of the committees on reconstruction and supply see CAB 87

For the papers of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross as an official of the United Nations Relief and Rehabiliation Administration see T 188
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Supplies to Liberated Areas Division, 1945-1948

Ministry of Production, Supplies to Liberated Areas Secretariat, 1944-1945
Physical description: 92 box(es)
Administrative / biographical background:

This secretariat was established in 1944, under the Ministry of Production, to deal with the co-ordination of supplies to areas liberated or conquered in the course of the war, and to co-operate with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

At the end of hostilities in Europe, the minister of production became in addition president of the Board of Trade, and the secretariat was transferred to the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who was given special responsibilities in the field of European reconstruction. When the Labour government took office in July 1945 the secretariat became the Supplies to Liberated Areas Division of the Board of Trade. It ceased to exist in 1948, when the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration completed its activities.

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research