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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Suggestions and Inventions Committee: Minutes and...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 787
What's it about?
RAIL 787
This series, which arises from suggestions and inventions submitted by company staff, includes agendas and minutes of the committee, and ledgers containing summary information about proposals and their disposal. There is also a collection of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 787
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Suggestions and Inventions Committee: Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1912-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series, which arises from suggestions and inventions submitted by company staff, includes agendas and minutes of the committee, and ledgers containing summary information about proposals and their disposal. There is also a collection of forms upon which individual suggestions were detailed for the consideration of the committee, and which bear an indication of whether they were recommended or otherwise for adoption.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From June 1918 the six different number series were combined into one starting at 2001 and the letter system of subject classification was retained but using the letter as a suffix
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 52 files and volumes
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12975/
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