Catalogue description Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive and predecessors: Directorate of Technical Costs: Concorde Files

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Details of DEFE 54
Reference: DEFE 54
Title: Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive and predecessors: Directorate of Technical Costs: Concorde Files
Description:

The papers in this series are in official file covers, but the files themselves are without prefixes, and do not appear to have been formally registered. The selected files relate to the Directorate of Technical Costs' oversight of contracts for research and development work connected with the Concorde project. The covers bear 'task' numbers which were used by the directorate to identify individual monitoring projects.
Date: 1966-1976
Related material:

The files are closely linked to the registered Concorde-related files in AVIA 93
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Defence, Directorate of Technical Costs, 1966-
Physical description: 9 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: These files were transferred from the Ministry of Defence to the Department for Trade and Industry, but no papers were subsequently added to them.
Administrative / biographical background:

The directorate was responsible for estimating the prime cost (materials and labour) of production under efficient management of supplies ordered by Directors of Contracts in the Ministry of Technology and the Ministry of Defence. The Directorate was inherited by the Ministry of Technology (Mintech) from the Ministry of Aviation when the latter was abolished in 1967. On the abolition of Mintech in 1970 it passed briefly to the Ministry of Aviation Supply, then (in 1971) to the Ministry of Defence (MOD). In Mintech and the Ministry of Aviation Supply it was based in Contracts Division, while in the MOD it formed part of the Procurement Executive.

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