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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.
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Transport Ministries: Engineering Intelligence (EI Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 156
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MT 156
This series consists of records concerning the Engineering Intelligence Division's provision of comprehensive information on all aspects of highway and traffic engineering work and its responsibility for formulating specifications for methods and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 156
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Engineering Intelligence (EI Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of records concerning the Engineering Intelligence Division's provision of comprehensive information on all aspects of highway and traffic engineering work and its responsibility for formulating specifications for methods and materials used in road construction. The series also includes files on the Division's experimental work on soils and road materials for which it liaised with the Road Research Laboratory and the British Standards Institute. It includes some records of the Highways Standards Committee.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former reference order.
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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)
- EINT and EID 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, Engineering Intelligence Division, 1970-1988
- Ministry of Transport, Engineering Intelligence Division, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 120 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred from Ministry of Transport to Department of the Environment in 1970. Transferred from Department of the Environment to Department of Transport in 1988. Division remained the same throughout.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- EINT file series ran from 1964 to 1968/9
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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)
- Policy and precedent files selected for permanent preservation.
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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 Engineering and Intelligence Division was created in response to a review on the use and recruitment of the Ministry of Transport's highways engineers. The Division was organised into three sections; Specifications, Information and the Computer Team.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11205/
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