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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 Traffic Division: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 113
What's it about?
MT 113
This series consists of registered files of the Road Traffic Division. Matters covered include road traffic legislation, car parking, pedestrian crossings and London traffic congestion.Files belonging to Road Traffic Division were registered...
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 113
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Traffic Division: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1931-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Road Traffic Division. Matters covered include road traffic legislation, car parking, pedestrian crossings and London traffic congestion.
Files belonging to Road Traffic Division were registered under the prefix RTC and included re-registered files from the RLT and H(TS) series (otherwise in MT 108). Some files from the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee (otherwise in MT 37) have been re-registered in the RTC series .
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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 the RTC series have been re-registered in the UT series:
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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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RTC 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, Road Traffic Division, 1955-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Road Safety (Traffic) Division, 1966-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Road Traffic Division, 1959-1961
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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114 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1985 to 1997 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 Road Traffic Division was set up in 1955 when the Traffic Safety Division was dissolved and replaced by separate Road Safety and Road Traffic divisions. In 1961 Road Traffic Division was dissolved and its functions distributed between General Traffic, Road Safety, and London Traffic divisions.
The work of Road Traffic Division concerned the regulation of road traffic including parking places waiting restrictions, pedestrian crossings, road signs and traffic signals, one-way traffic systems, speed limits and weight restrictions. It was also concerned with the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11162/
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