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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
Series
Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Safety Division: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 92
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MT 92
This series consists of registered files of the Road Safety General Division and its predecessors in the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. The files in this series generally reflect those aspects of road...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 92
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Safety Division: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1931-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Road Safety General Division and its predecessors in the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. The files in this series generally reflect those aspects of road safety which came to be the responsibility of the Road Safety General Division after 1962.
The files relate to all aspects of road safety and related road traffic issues, including road safety publicity, the National Road Safety Advisory Council, the Highway Code, liaison with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, research on road safety issues, experimental safety schemes, accident prevention measures, road safety legislation and legislation with an impact on road safety.
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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 the RS series have been re-registered 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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RS 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, Road Safety Divisions, 1970-1976
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Department of Transport, Road Safety Divisions, 1976-1997
- Ministry of Transport, 1919-1941
- Ministry of Transport, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Road Safety (General) Division, 1966-1970
- Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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773 files and flat sheets
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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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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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In 1937 the Roads Department, formed in 1919 on the establishment of the Ministry of Transport, was split into four divisions: two Highways Divisions, a Licensing Division and a Traffic and Safety Division. In 1940 the last division was absorbed into a single Highways Administration Division, but in 1946 a separate Traffic Safety Division was again formed. This division was in turn divided in 1955 into Road Safety and Road Traffic Divisions. The latter was dissolved in 1961 and its functions distributed among a number of Highways Divisions and the Road Safety Division. In 1966 the Road Safety Division was split into two divisions, the first dealing with traffic and the second, designated the Road Safety General Division, dealing with the road safety programme and legislation, particularly in relation to education and training. A third Road Safety (Local) Division was added later to deal with the local application of road safety publicity and training.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11141/
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