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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, Traffic Control Development and Traffic Control...
Catalogue reference: MT 111
What's it about?
MT 111
This series consists of registered files concerning traffic control devices, such as traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. There are also papers on the design and layout of junctions and area traffic control experiments.
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 111
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Traffic Control Development and Traffic Control and Communications Division: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1932-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files concerning traffic control devices, such as traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. There are also papers on the design and layout of junctions and area traffic control experiments.
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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 of this series have been re-registered in the LH 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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TCD and TCC 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, Traffic Control and Communications Division, 1974-1976
- Department of the Environment, Traffic Control Development Division, 1970-1974
- Department of Transport, Traffic Control and Communications Division, 1976-1997
- Ministry of Transport, Traffic Control Development Division, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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138 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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Department of Transport , from 1982 to 1997 , from 1998
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions , from 1982 to 1997 , from 1998
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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
- Transport management
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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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Traffic Control Development Division was responsible for the general development of equipment associated with traffic control devices, such as traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. It was merged with parts of Traffic Engineering Division to form Traffic Control and Communications Division (TCC) in 1974.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11160/
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Ministry of Transport and successors, Traffic Control Development and Traffic Control and Communications Division: Registered Files
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