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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
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Series
Transport Ministries: Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch (HECB Series)...
Catalogue reference: MT 154
What's it about?
MT 154
This series consists of registered files of the Computer Branch of the Highways Engineering Division.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 154
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch (HECB Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Computer Branch of the Highways Engineering Division.
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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)
- HECB 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1970-1976
- Department of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1976-1994
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Engineering Division, Computer Branch, 1965-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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from 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files concerning the origins of the branch, the introduction of computers in highway engineering design, and research projects, have been selected. Files of a general administrative nature have been destroyed.
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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 Engineering Computer Branch was established in 1965. Its main functions were: to appraise the use of computers in road design; to develop and maintain computer programs required by the road programme; to examine all programs submitted for approval; and to promote increased informed usage of computer design in all aspopects of highway design.
The branch was abolished in 1985 and its functions were overtaken by the Structural Approval Signs and Lighting Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11203/
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