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Series
General Shipping Policy: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 73
What's it about?
MT 73
This series contains files of the ministries of Transport, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of War Transport. They relate to a wide range of national and international shipping policy matters including: emigration to...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 73
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Shipping Policy: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the ministries of Transport, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of War Transport. They relate to a wide range of national and international shipping policy matters including: emigration to the Commonwealth and the colonies; refugees; passenger and freight services, including those of Northern Ireland and Scotland; shipbuilding and repair; the registration and sale of ships abroad; sea fishing and whaling; negotiations on a fixed Channel Link; the Central Commission of the Rhine, 1946 to 1947; the Beira negotiations, 1948 to 1950; the Pan-African Transport Conference, 1949 to 1950; economic policy matters such as subsidising the British shipping industry; government involvement in British shipping companies, particularly the Cunard Steamship Co Ltd; and shipping legislation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series contains files registered under two different systems. Piece numbers 1 to 230 were raised by the Ministry of Transport, using a numerical series. Pieces 231-327, raised by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, follow a theme system.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related files of the Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical, Chemical (Process Plant) see FV 36
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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)
- GSP series
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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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- Board of Trade, General Shipping Policy Division, 1965-1970
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, General Shipping Policy Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, General Shipping Policy Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, General Shipping Policy Division, 1959-1965
- Ministry of War Transport, Shipping Division, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 629 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1974 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11122/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
156,126 records
Within the department: MT
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