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Ministry of Transport and Successors: International Inland Transport Branch and International...
Catalogue reference: MT 89
What's it about?
MT 89
This series consists of registered files of the International Inland Transport Branch (IIT files), later International Transport Division (IT files), of the Ministry of Transport. They contain papers arising from the ministry's representation on...
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 89
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and Successors: International Inland Transport Branch and International Transport Division: Registered Files (IIT and IT Files)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1945-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the International Inland Transport Branch (IIT files), later International Transport Division (IT files), of the Ministry of Transport. They contain papers arising from the ministry's representation on international bodies concerned with transport, such as the Transport Committee of the Economic Commission for Europe, and there are a number of files relating to the carriage of dangerous goods and bilateral road haulage agreements.
Some files on the Channel Tunnel have been selected.
The IIT prefix was first used in 1948 and discontinued in 1961. The IT prefix was first used in 1948.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records in this series have been transferred in more that one batch. In each transfer, the files are arranged in the file reference order.
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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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IIT and IT 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, International Transport Division, 1970-1976
- Department of Transport, 1976-1997
- Department of Transport, 1995-2002
- Department of Transport, International Transport Division, 1976-1984
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, International Inland Transport Branch, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, International Inland Transport Branch, 1948-1953
- Ministry of Transport, International Inland Transport Branch, 1959-1963
- Ministry of Transport, International Transport Division, 1963-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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421 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Files selected at normal second review.
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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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This series consists of registered files of the International Inland TransportBranch (IIT files), , of the Ministry of Transport. The records in this serieshave been transferred in more that one batch. From 1980 Department ofTransport.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11138/
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