Catalogue description Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division and successors: Registered Files (SB Series)

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Reference: FV 36
Title: Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division and successors: Registered Files (SB Series)
Description:

The files in this series were used by the Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division (ECS) of the Ministry of Technology (Mintech) and its successors.

Files in the SB series relate to the shipbuilding industry, for which the ECS Division and then the DTI's Shipbuilding and Process Plant Division (SBP) Division had both technological and sponsorship responsibilities. Many of the earlier files cover financial rescue cases, including those of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd. There is a series of minutes and papers of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Shipbuilding. A small number of these files relate to the UK hovercraft industry which the division had responsibility for sponsoring after 1974. There are also records relating to the competitive and financial position of British Shipbuilders and its privatisation, the shipbuilding redundancy payments scheme, the home shipbuilding credit gurantee scheme and the shipbuilding intervention scheme The Shipbuilding Industry Board (SIB), which the division oversaw during its lifetime, had its own file series.

The SB series also contains re-registrations from the Ministry of Transport's GSP series and DTI Hovercraft Division's AW series.

Date: 1963-1994
Arrangement:

The SB file prefix originated in ECS Division, in 1967, following transfer of responsibility for the industry from the Board of Trade (BoT) to Mintech in autumn 1966. Both the Ministry of Transport and, prior to that, the Admiralty had previous responsibility for the subject. Mintech briefly maintained the BoT's SBR file prefix but then replaced it with the new SB prefix, falling into line with current Mintech practice; many of the existing files were renumbered accordingly.

Related material:

There was some re-registration from the predecessor SBR file series, as well as from the Hovercraft Division's AW series and the Ministry of Transport's GSP series. Records in these file series can be found in:

AVIA 98

For files relating to the hovercraft see BT 268

BT 291

MT 73

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Minerals, Metals, Electrical Engineering, Process Plant and Industrial Technologies Division,, 1974-1976

Department of Industry, Shipbuilding Policy Division, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division, 1970-1971

Department of Trade and Industry, Shipbuilding Policy Division, 1983-1985

Ministry of Technology, Electrical Engineering Chemical (Process Plant) and Shipbuilding Industries Division, 1967-1970

Ministry of Technology, Shipbuilding, Electrical Engineering and Chemical Plant Division, 1966-1966

Physical description: 589 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1996 Department of Trade and Industry

Accumulation dates: 1967 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing

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