Catalogue description Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers
Reference: | BT 72 |
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Title: | Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers |
Description: |
This series contains statistics on the consumption of tobacco dating back to 1916, as well as the Tobacco and Matches Control board's papers. |
Date: | 1916-1918 |
Arrangement: |
Both piece and item numbers should be given when ordering a document. |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Board of Trade, Tobacco and Matches Control Board, 1917-1919 |
Physical description: | 2 box(es) |
Unpublished finding aids: |
There is a MS index to the papers originally held by the Board in file E38633 in BT 13/95 |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Orders of 15 June and 8 September 1917 under the Defence of the Realm Act set up a Tobacco and Matches Control Board under the Board of Trade to administer orders restricting the importing, distribution and sale of tobacco and matches in 1917 and 1918. The Board was dissolved in 1919. |
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