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Series
Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Printing Branch (PTG Series) Files
Catalogue reference: NSC 24
What's it about?
NSC 24
This series contains files and balance sheets of the Printing branch.
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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NSC 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Printing Branch (PTG Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1894-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files and balance sheets of the Printing branch.
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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 PTG series files are at NSC 9/1180-1215:
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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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PTG
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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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- Post Office Savings Bank, 1861-1969
- Post Office Savings Department, 1861-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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85 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 unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Department for National Savings
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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
- Banking
- Communications
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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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In 1898 the Treasury authorised the purchase of the first printing machine for installation in the Post Office Savings Bank, the case for this innovation resting on the security nature of the Post Office Savings Bank's requirements for deposit books and warrant forms, and on the fact that costings showed that printing work could be handled more economically 'in-house'.
From the experimental use of one machine the printing branch grew to a size such that it was able to undertake a large proportion of the Bank's requirements for forms, envelopes, deposit books, etc. It has also been used for some of the printing requirements of other parts of the Savings Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11334/
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