Catalogue description Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Account Cards

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Details of BT 273
Reference: BT 273
Title: Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Account Cards
Description:

Account cards showing the value of enemy assets seized in the United Kingdom kept by the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments.

The Account Cards in this series are incomplete. There are no Account Cards for Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Estonia or the ‘German Baltic States’.
Date: c1950-c1957
Arrangement:

The cards are all grouped by country of enemy. The majority are then filed by TWE file number, but for assets where no TWE number could be traced are separately batched in alphabetical order.
Related material:

See also the records of the Second World War depts Division within BT

Files of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957

Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948
Physical description: 256 card(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

There are no indexes to the account cards and the index to the TWE files has not survived. A numerical list of TWE file numbers survives in BT 271/807-815. Various indexes to vesting orders in BT 272 may assist in some cases.

Administrative / biographical background:

The decision to prepare summary accounts cards from the account folders appears to have been taken in 1950, probably to assist the takeover of assets by the various administrators from the Custodian of Enemy Property.

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