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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, Transport Policy General Division: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 160
What's it about?
MT 160
This series contains registered files of the Transport Policy General Division. They are concerned predominantly with the Division's co-ordinating role in the preparation of the Transport Bill 1967/1968, but include files dealing with policy on...
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 160
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport, Transport Policy General Division: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Transport Policy General Division. They are concerned predominantly with the Division's co-ordinating role in the preparation of the Transport Bill 1967/1968, but include files dealing with policy on the carriage of parcels as well as more general transport policy. The series includes papers re-registered from the OD files series (General Division).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Previous reference order
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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 from this series have been re-registered in the FC 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)
- TPG 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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- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, General Division, 1955-1959
- Ministry of Transport, General Division, 1959-1965
- Ministry of Transport, Transport Policy General Division, 1967-1968
- Ministry of Transport, Transport Policy Interurban and General Division, 1965-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 205 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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- Topics
- Transport management
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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 the Department of Transport in 1970 and the Department of Environment, Transport, and the Regions in 1997
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- TPG series ran from 1966 to 1968
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index to the files relating to the Transport Bill can be found in MT 160/204
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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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Transport Policy Interurban and General Division replaced the General Division in 1965. The Division consisted of two branches: the first dealt with the general development of transport policy, interurban transport, and economic and technological research; the second branch considered policy on sundry services in liaison with other government departments. It was replaced in 1967 by the Transport Policy General Division. The division was disbanded in 1968, and its responsibilities were partly assumed by Freight Co-ordination and Public Transport A Divisions and Regional Development Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11209/
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