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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.
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Ministry of Transport and successors, Vehicle Regulation and Taxation Divisions:...
Catalogue reference: MT 99
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MT 99
This series consists of papers concerning the insurance, licensing, registration and taxation of motor vehicles.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 99
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Vehicle Regulation and Taxation Divisions: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of papers concerning the insurance, licensing, registration and taxation of motor vehicles.
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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 in the VS 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)
- VRT 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 file(s)
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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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- Topics
- Taxation
- Transport management
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11148/
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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster
On one tragic night in March 1943 in Bethnal Green, East London, 173 people lost their lives taking shelter from German bombing as the air raid sirens sounded.
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