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Catalogue description Board of Trade: Distribution of Industry and Regional Division: Regional Boards for Industry: Files
| Reference: | BT 171 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Board of Trade: Distribution of Industry and Regional Division: Regional Boards for Industry: Files |
| Description: |
This series contains headquarters material concerning the Regional Boards for Industry. Among the papers are minutes of the meetings of chairmen of Regional Boards, Secretaries' Conference reports, Regional Controllers' Monthly Reports for the Midland and North Midland Boards, memoranda on the Midland and North Midland Boards, papers relating to organisation, general subject files and material on the fuel crisis of the winter of 1947. |
| Date: | 1942-1965 |
| Related material: |
See also the records of regional organisations in Division within BT For records of the Economic Affairs Office see BT 195 See also HLG 107 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Trade, Distribution of Industry and Regional Division, 1946-1965 Board of Trade, Distribution of Industry Division, 1965-1969 |
| Physical description: | 352 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Regional Boards for Industry were set up by the Ministry of Supply in January 1940 under the title Area Boards. They were then controlled successively by the Ministry of Labour (May 1940 - July 1942), the Ministry of Production (July 1942 - 1945), the Board of Trade (1945 - October 1947), the Ministry of Economic Affairs (October - November 1947), the Treasury (November 1947 - February 1952) and again the Board of Trade until they were disbanded in January 1965. |
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