Catalogue description Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Telecommunications Directorate: Registered Files (TN and Tels Series)
Reference: | BT 252 |
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Title: | Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Telecommunications Directorate: Registered Files (TN and Tels Series) |
Description: |
This series contains files of the Telecommunications Directorate of the Civil Aviation Departments relating to the development, siting, organisation and maintenance of telecommunications systems and equipment. The subject matter of the files includes:
The series also contains minutes and papers of the Civil Aviation Radio Advisory Committee, and a small number of files relating to air accidents and air misses. The papers in this series are of the TN and Tels registered file series, which ran roughly from 1947 to 1956 and 1953 to 1970 respectively. The Tels series includes some re-registered TN files. A series of TE files opened in 1970 passed to the Civil Aviation Authority upon their formation in 1972. |
Date: | 1926-1971 |
Related material: |
For registered files of the National Air Traffic Services Directorate of Air Navigation Services see DR 37 Further TELS series files are in DR 39 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | TN and Tels file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Board of Trade, Telecommunications Directorate, 1966-1970 Board of Trade, Telecommunications Directorate (Air Traffic Services), 1969-1970 Department of Trade and Industry, Telecommunications Directorate (Air Traffic Services), 1970-1972 Ministry of Aviation, Navigational Services, 1959-1966 Ministry of Civil Aviation, Directorate of Navigational Services (Telecommunications), 1948-1953 Ministry of Civil Aviation, Telecommunications Directorate, 1945-1948 Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation Department, Telecommunications Directorate, 1953-1959 |
Physical description: | 494 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Telecommunications Directorate consisted of a number of sections (Tels 1, Tels 2 etc.) and its Director reported to the Director General of Navigational Services. In November 1948 it became the Directorate of Navigational Services (Telecommunications) which it remained until 1953, when on the formation of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation its title reverted back to the Telecommunications Directorate (or Civil Aviation Telecommunications Directorate). |
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