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Series
War Office and Ministry of Supply: Contracts Precedent Books
Catalogue reference: WO 254
What's it about?
WO 254
The earlier volumes in this series (WO 254/1-2) are General Note Books containing summaries of decisions taken mainly on Army contracts for supplies. The remaining volumes (WO 254/3-6) consist of loose leaf typescript sheets in which entries...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 254
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office and Ministry of Supply: Contracts Precedent Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1900-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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The earlier volumes in this series (WO 254/1-2) are General Note Books containing summaries of decisions taken mainly on Army contracts for supplies. The remaining volumes (WO 254/3-6) consist of loose leaf typescript sheets in which entries prior to January 1946 are extracts from the original General Note Books which were taken over from the Director of Army Contracts by the Ministry of Supply in August 1939.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For works contract precedent books see WORK 52
For surviving registered files to which the paper numbers in the right hand column of the books refer see WO 32
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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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- War Office, Department of the Quartermaster General, Contracts Section, 1904-1907
- War Office, Department of the Surveyor General of Supply, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1917-1924
- War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1907-1917
- War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1936-1964
- War Office, Financial Secretary, Contracts Branch, 1887-1904
- War Office, Financial Secretary, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1924-1936
- War Office, Master General of the Ordnance, Contracts Section, 1904-1907
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 volume(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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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/C14459/
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