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Transport Ministries: Motorway Services Area (MSAB Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 158
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MT 158
This series contains registered files of the Motorway Services Area Branch and successors relating to government policy regarding the establishment and maintenance of motorway service areas and related matters. Some files of the Highways Special...
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 158
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Motorway Services Area (MSAB Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1960-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Motorway Services Area Branch and successors relating to government policy regarding the establishment and maintenance of motorway service areas and related matters. Some files of the Highways Special Roads Division are re-registered into this series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By previous reference order by transfer.
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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)
- MSAB file 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, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1970-1976
- Department of Transport, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1976-1982
- Ministry of Transport, Motorway Service Area Branch, 1969-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 106 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1969 onwards
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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)
- Records of the Motorway Services Area Branch concerning policy and precedent, and those records of a controversial nature have been preserved. Routine records on leasing 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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With the growth of motorways service areas, it became necessary to establish more formal arrangements for determining policy as to their establishment and maintenance. In 1969 the Motorway Service Area Branch (MSAB) was established as a separate entity of, successively, the Ministry of Transport, the Department of the Environment, and the Department of Transport. In 1982 MSAB's work was incorporated into the Highways Lands and Services Division, in 1991 into the Highways Agency, and in 1994 into Highways Agency (Network General and Maintenance Division).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11207/
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