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Division
Records of the Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division and successors
Catalogue reference: Division within FV
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Division within FV
Registered files of the Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division are in FV 97.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within FV
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division and successors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division are in FV 97.
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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)
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- Department of Industry, Machine Tools and Mechanical Engineering Division, 1975-1980
- Department of Industry, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Division, 1980-1983
- Department of Industry, Mechanical Engineering Division, 1974-1975
- Department of Trade and Industry, Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division, 1970-1972
- Department of Trade and Industry, Mechanical Engineering Division, 1972-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 series
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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
- Manufacturing
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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 Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division was formed in 1970 and composed of branches dealing with three aspects of the industry:- machine tools and welding machinery, manufacturing machinery and mechanical handling equipment. In 1972 the Mechanical Engineering Division was created which consisted of the three branches above and two branches concerned with vehicles and agricultural equipment and other mechanical engineering products which transferred from the Vehicles and Mechanical Engineering Products Division which itself was abolished in 1972. In 1974 the Division was transferred to the Department of Industry and in 1975 it was renamed the Machine Tools and Mechanical Engineering Division with responsibility for the metal working machine tools, manufacturing machinery, railway equipment and office machinery industries. Responsibility for the vehicles and agricultural equipment industries passed to Vehicle Division. In 1980 the Division was renamed the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Division
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1419/
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