Focus on
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
Transport Ministries: Mathematical Advisory Unit (MAU Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 166
What's it about?
MT 166
This series consists of registered files of the Mathematical Advisory Unit. These files deal with the organisation of the unit: transportation and planning studies; urban and interurban application projects; and research.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 166
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Mathematical Advisory Unit (MAU Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Mathematical Advisory Unit. These files deal with the organisation of the unit: transportation and planning studies; urban and interurban application projects; and research.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other files of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning are in MT 149
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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)
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MAU series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Mathematical Advisory Unit, 1970-1971
- Ministry of Transport, Mathematical Advisory Unit, 1966-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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35 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 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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- 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)
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Transferred to the Department of Transport in 1976 and to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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Series ran from 1968 to 1971
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Transferred in a single batch. No further accruals expected.
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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 The Mathematical Advisory Unit was set up in 1966 as part of the Directorate-General of Economic Planning to provide general mathematical and computer advice to the Ministry of Transport and other related organisations. By 1970 the Unit had been divided into four branches, and was part of the Directorate of Scientific Studies. When the Department of the Environment was established later that year, the Unit was grouped under the Directorate of Economics A. The unit was dissolved in 1971.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11215/
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