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NORWICH CITY COUNCIL, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OFFICE

Catalogue reference: N/WM

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This record is about the NORWICH CITY COUNCIL, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OFFICE dating from 1838-1974.

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Reference: N/WM
Title: NORWICH CITY COUNCIL, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OFFICE
Date: 1838-1974
Description: Records of the Norwich Weights and Measures Office
Held by: Norfolk Record Office
Language: English
Creator(s): <corpname>Norwich City Council, Weights and Measures Office</corpname>
Physical description: 12 files.
Immediate source of acquisition: Records received by the Norfolk Record Office on an unknown day in March 1974 (N/WM1/1-2) 18 and 30 July 1990 (N/WE1/3-6) 6 October 1992 (N/WM2/1& 2) and (N/WM3/1-4)
Administrative / biographical background: Local weights and measures were verified, according to various acts of parliament by the Comptroller General of the Exchequer and (from 1864) by the Deputy Warden of the Standards at the Board of Trade. In 1971 local inspectors of weights and measures were invived to apply for custody of obsolete indentures of verification of weights and measures and those for Norwich were transferred to the record office
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7197d871-623a-40ba-ad84-db1653961ccb/