Catalogue description Records of the Department's Central Organisation

Details of Division within DSIR
Reference: Division within DSIR
Title: Records of the Department's Central Organisation
Description:

Records of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's central organisation relating to its central functions of organising, developing and encouraging scientific and industrial research and also of its internal functions.

Comprises:

  • General files, DSIR 17 and DSIR 75
  • Annual reports, DSIR 53
  • Headquarters files relating to fire research, DSIR 71
  • Headquarters files relating to the Hydraulics Research Board, DSIR 39
  • Headquarters files relating to Torry Research Station, DSIR 40
  • Industry Division, DSIR 52
  • Intelligence Division, DSIR 45
  • Information Division, DSIR 49
  • Stations Division (Road Research Laboratory files), DSIR 70
  • Research Boards and Committees, 1916-1939 reports, DSIR 43
  • Returns giving details of research units and laboratories in 1939, DSIR 44
  • Committee on Research Contracts with Universities, DSIR 41
  • Establishment files, DSIR 18
  • Civilian personal files, DSIR 47
Date: 1915-1969
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1916-1965

Ministry of Technology, 1964-1970

Privy Council, Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1915-1916
Physical description: 16 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Headquarters Office of the department served the Advisory Council, and later the Research Council, and their committees. It gave effect to their decisions and conducted almost all the department's business other than scientific work and associated executive work falling to directors of research. When fully developed it was organised in six divisions, grouped in pairs under three directors: Establishment and Finance Divisions; Stations and Industry Divisions; and Grants and Information Divisions.

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