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Ministry of Transport and successors: Statistics Files
Catalogue reference: MT 65
What's it about?
MT 65
This series consists of registered files of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of War Transport, and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation concerning the compilation of statistics on all aspects of the departments' work. The files...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 65
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors: Statistics Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1935-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of War Transport, and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation concerning the compilation of statistics on all aspects of the departments' work.
The files contain statistical returns, analyses and forecasts which were collected and prepared by the Ministry of Transport's Statistics Division.
Earlier files in this series mostly concern the availability, employment and location of British, Allied and neutral shipping, and shipping losses during the Second World War. Other files concern UK imports and exports, the Channel Tunnel, road accidents, road traffic counts, road goods transport, shipping tonnage and voyage times, the nationalised transport undertakings, particularly the British Railways Board, the Road Haulage Organisation, and the economic implications of transport policy.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier transport statistics files see MT 47
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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STATS and S Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Statistics Division, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Statistics Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Statistics Division, 1935-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Statistics Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Statistics Division, 1959-1970
- Ministry of War Transport, Statistics Division, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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477 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Department of Transport , from 1972 to 1976 , from 1985 to 1997 , from 1997
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions , from 1972 to 1976 , from 1985 to 1997 , from 1997
Department of the Environment , from 1972 to 1976 , from 1985 to 1997 , from 1997
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11114/
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Ministry of Transport and successors: Statistics Files
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