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Ministry of Defence and predecessors: Advisory Council of Scientific Research and...
Catalogue reference: WO 195
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WO 195
Reports and other circulated papers of the Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development and its successor the Scientific Advisory Council, and of their various boards, committees and sub-committees, which advised the Ministry...
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WO 195
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence and predecessors: Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development, later Scientific Advisory Council: Reports and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports and other circulated papers of the Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development and its successor the Scientific Advisory Council, and of their various boards, committees and sub-committees, which advised the Ministry of Supply and, from 1959, the War Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series is arranged in two distinct parts: pieces 1-14925 are papers of the Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development, and are prefixed AC; pieces 14926 onwards are reports and papers of the Scientific Advisory Council, and have the prefix SAC.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Chemical Warfare Research Department, Porton, see WO 142
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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)
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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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- Ministry of Defence, Scientific Advisory Council, 1964-1964
- Ministry of Supply, Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development, 1939-1946
- Ministry of Supply, Scientific Advisory Council, 1946-1959
- War Office, Scientific Advisory Council, 1959-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17023 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2018 Ministry of Defence
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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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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 Advisory Council of Scientific Research and Technical Development was set up in 1939, to consider and initiate new proposals for research and development, to review research and development already in progress in Ministry of Supply establishments, to make recommendations regarding the most effective use of scientific personnel, and to advise on scientific and technical problems referred to them. The Council consisted of various committees and sub-committees.
Early in 1946 a new Scientific Advisory Council was created with subsidiary Advisory Boards, each board dealing with one subject - or group of subjects - and advising the ministries responsible thereto.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14402/
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