Division
Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors
Catalogue reference: Division within SUPP
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Division within SUPP
Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors relating to responsibilities for contracts. Contract record books are in SUPP 4.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within SUPP
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors relating to responsibilities for contracts. Contract record books are in SUPP 4.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Contract files are in AVIA 53
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Supply, Contracts Directorate, 1939-1947
- Ministry of Supply, Contracts Division, 1947-1959
- War Office, Department of the Surveyor General of Supply, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1917-1924
- War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1907-1917
- War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1936-1964
- War Office, Financial Secretary, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1924-1936
- War Office, Master General of the Ordnance, Contracts Section, 1904-1907
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 series
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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When the Ministry of Supply was established in August 1939 it took over responsibility for munitions contracts and most of the Directorate of Army Contracts from the War Office. This became the Contracts Directorate (and from 1947) Division of the ministry, under the superintendence of the permanent secretary.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1079/
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Records of the Contracts Division and predecessors