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Series
Ministry of Transport: Goods Vehicle Stations Branch: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 165
What's it about?
MT 165
This series contains registered files of the Goods Vehicle Stations Branch. The files concern matters relating to administrative planning for heavy goods vehicle testing and plating schemes. All files selected have been re-registered from the VR series.
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 165
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport: Goods Vehicle Stations Branch: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1962-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Goods Vehicle Stations Branch. The files concern matters relating to administrative planning for heavy goods vehicle testing and plating schemes. All files selected have been re-registered from the VR series.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files containing information on goods vehicle testing and plating are in MT 102
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other registered files in the VR series can be found 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)
- GVS 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, Driving and Vehicle Planning Group, 1966-1969
- Ministry of Transport, Goods Vehicle Stations Branch, 1959-1969
- Ministry of Transport, Road Transport (Goods) Division, 1963-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Vehicle Regulation Division, 1959-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 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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In 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to Department of Transport in 1970 and Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions in 1997
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1962-1967
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All records are policy files, and are the only files to have survived. A small number dealing with routine maters 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 Goods Vehicle Stations Branch (GSVB) originated in the Road Transport Goods Division (RTG), from which it was separated in 1966. Thereafter the GSVB formed part of a new Driving and Vehicle Planning Group, which operated from 1966 to 1969. In 1969 it became part of the Vehicle Inspection Division. GSVB was responsible for the administrative planning of the heavier goods vehicle testing scheme and plating.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11214/
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