Series
Treasury: Defence Policy and Materiel Division: Registered Files (DM and 2DM Series)
Catalogue reference: T 225
What's it about?
T 225
Files of the Defence Policy and Materiel (DM) Division of the Treasury. They relate to the Treasury's involvement with the armed forces and their budgets. Subjects covered in the files include: naval aviation, atomic energy and weapons 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)
- T 225
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Defence Policy and Materiel Division: Registered Files (DM and 2DM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Defence Policy and Materiel (DM) Division of the Treasury. They relate to the Treasury's involvement with the armed forces and their budgets. Subjects covered in the files include: naval aviation, atomic energy and weapons research, defence contracts, research, works and supplies, patents, arms exports, disarmament, air research and development, Royal Ordnance Factories, overseas military assistance, international defence questions, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, British bases overseas, (including Cyprus, and Korea), British Army of the Rhine, Western European Union, and miscellaneous Inter-Service questions.
Also includes files of the S series (T 161) which were re-registered in the DM series in 1948.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)
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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)
- DM and 2DM 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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- Treasury, Defence Policy and Materiel Division, 1938-1975
- Treasury, Supply Department, 1919-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4440 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1977 Treasury
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1948 to 1975
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 Defence Policy and Materiel (DM) Division was set up in 1938. In 1957 the Trade and Industry Division (TI) took over responsibility for most questions relating to civil aviation, except those relating to the development or production, at government expense, of aircraft or aero engines, which remained with the DM Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13962/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: T
Records created or inherited by HM Treasury
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Treasury: Defence Policy and Materiel Division: Registered Files (DM and 2DM Series)