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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
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Series
Transport Ministries: Urban Traffic Policy (UT Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 137
What's it about?
MT 137
This series contains the registered files of the Urban Traffic Policy Division of the Ministry of Transport and its successors.The files relate to traffic and parking regulations outside Greater London and to environmental traffic policy. Many...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 137
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Urban Traffic Policy (UT Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1949-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the registered files of the Urban Traffic Policy Division of the Ministry of Transport and its successors.
The files relate to traffic and parking regulations outside Greater London and to environmental traffic policy. Many concern specific local orders and schemes.
Some files in this series have been re-registered from the GT series (otherwise in MT 112) and from the Road Traffic C Division. This series contains examples of re-registered files from both of these divisions.
This series also contains some files re-registered from the RTC series (otherwise in MT 113).
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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 in this series have been re-registered in 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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UT 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 Development and General Division, 1953-1955
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways General Planning Division, 1956-1959
- Ministry of Transport, General Planning Highways Division, 1965-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Development and General Division, 1951-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Highways General Planning Division, 1959-1961
- Ministry of Transport, Urban Traffic Policy Division, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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47 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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from 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
from 1988 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 Urban Traffic Policy Division was formed in 1966 and took over work of the Highways General Planning Division. It was responsible for traffic and parking regulations outside Greater London and environmental traffic policy. In 1968 the Division was dissolved and its functions split between the London Highways Division and the newly created Transport and Traffic Planning Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11186/
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