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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
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Series
Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTA Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 87
What's it about?
MT 87
Files of Nationalised Transport Division A, set up following the Transport Act 1962, and including papers taken over from other divisions. The files contain correspondence with the British Transport Commission, the British Railways Board, London...
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 87
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTA Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of Nationalised Transport Division A, set up following the Transport Act 1962, and including papers taken over from other divisions. The files contain correspondence with the British Transport Commission, the British Railways Board, London Transport Board, Thomas Cook and Son Ltd and the Transport Holding Company.
Matters covered include: structure, powers and responsibilities, board appointments, industrial relations, railway workshops, capital investment, finance, pensions, race relations and the use of railway land.
This series contains some re-registered files from the WRG series (otherwise in MT 140) and from the LP series (otherwise in MT 135).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series re-registered in the FC series in
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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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NTA 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, Nationalised Transport Division A, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport, Nationalised Transport Division A, 1962-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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246 file(s)
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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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from 1980 Department of Transport
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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)
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Series is accruing
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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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Following the Transport Act 1962 the administrative divisions in the Ministry of Transport responsible for dealing with the various sections of the public sector transport industries were reorganised and Nationalised Transport Divisions A and B were formed. The former had responsibility for certain aspects of nationalised rail and road undertakings, including British Rail's manpower and labour relations, pay and pensions, property issues, health and welfare legislation and the Transport Holding Company. The latter dealt with inland waterways (public and private legislation affecting the waterways and relations with British Waterways Board).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11136/
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