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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, Highways Traffic and Safety Division
Catalogue reference: MT 108
What's it about?
MT 108
This series includes registered files relating to road traffic legislation, accidents and driving tests. There are also papers of the Committee on Road Safety.The H(TS) series started in 1949 but the present series covers in the main the period...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 108
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Highways Traffic and Safety Division
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Date (When the record was created)
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1937-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes registered files relating to road traffic legislation, accidents and driving tests. There are also papers of the Committee on Road Safety.
The H(TS) series started in 1949 but the present series covers in the main the period between 1946 and 1956 when the division came under the Highways Administration.
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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 RTC 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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H/TS 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 (Traffic and Safety) Division, 1953-1956
- Ministry of Transport, Highways (Traffic and Safety) Division, 1949-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Administration Division, 1946-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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42 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1981 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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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 (Traffic and Safety) Division dealt with road traffic regulations and restrictions, and considered road safety policy and propaganda. It provided the Secretariat for the Departmental Committee on Road Safety and carried out the management of Road Fund grants for approved road safety schemes conducted by local authorities. The division was concerned with the Road Traffic Acts in connection with driving tests and driving licences, as well as administering the closure of roads under various acts.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11157/
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