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Series
Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 95
What's it about?
MT 95
This series consists of files from the Highways Engineering Division concerning roads and highways in England and Wales. They include files concerning the routeing of motorways and trunk roads, the design and layout of roads, motorways, bridges...
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 95
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1929-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files from the Highways Engineering Division concerning roads and highways in England and Wales. They include files concerning the routeing of motorways and trunk roads, the design and layout of roads, motorways, bridges and tunnels; experimental road works; planning proposals; routes for abnormal loads; traffic censuses; pedestrian crossings; the authorization and design of traffic signs; installation and maintenance of traffic signals; accident statistics; road classification and parking requirements. The series includes plans and photographs.
The HE file series was instituted in 1949 to accommodate the papers of the Highways Engineering Staff formerly registered in various file series (including RA, RC, RG, RPW, RTS, TRA, TRK, TRR, TRW and Z7) of the Roads Department. Many files in this series have therefore been re-registered or have earlier files attached to them. They cover in the main, the period 1943-1969, though later papers have been added to some files in the series.
This series also contains some files from the GPH series (otherwise in MT 120) which have been re-registered to the HE file series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Welsh Divisional Road Engineer are in BD 31
Records of the Ministry of Transport's Welsh Roads Division are in BD 30
Other records of the Welsh Office's Roads Division are in BD 43
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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 have been re-registered into the WM series in
Some files in this series have been re-registered in the BE 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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HE 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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- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Engineering Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Highways (Engineering) Division, 1959-1964
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, 1946-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1041 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 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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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The Highways Engineering Division was formed from the Road Engineering Staff in 1940 when the Roads Department was reorganised into Highways (Administrative) and Highways (Engineering).
In 1956 various branches were developed within the division to deal with such subjects as trunk roads, bridges, traffic engineering, motorways, classified roads, civil and mechanical engineering, and planning.
The Highways Engineering Division was dissolved in 1964 when the administration and engineering divisions merged and were reorganised in functional groups.
The Highways Engineering Division, was responsible for technical matters relating to trunk roads and bridges for which the Minister was the highway authority, and for classified roads and brides which were grant-aided by the Minister. It advised the Highways Administrative Division and was involved with road planning, safety, traffic signs and signals, road works on behalf of other government departments, as well as classification of roads, street lighting and the movement of abnormal loads.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11144/
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