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Ministry of Supply and successors: Branch Registry Files
Catalogue reference: WO 286
What's it about?
WO 286
Files from the Ministry of Supply (otherwise in SUPP) Branch Registry systems covering functions transferred to the War Office in 1959. Files deal with aspects of the supply of arms and equipment to the army, the Royal Ordnance Factories, and the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 286
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Supply and successors: Branch Registry Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1925-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Ministry of Supply (otherwise in SUPP) Branch Registry systems covering functions transferred to the War Office in 1959. Files deal with aspects of the supply of arms and equipment to the army, the Royal Ordnance Factories, and the export of arms.
Some files from AVIA 22, AVIA 46, AVIA 49, AVIA 50, AVIA 51, AVIA 52, AVIA 53, AVIA 54, AVIA 55, AVIA 56, and AVIA 57 (the 1-12 series) were re-registered in this series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
A decentralised registry series was started in the Ministry of Supply in 1949 designed gradually to replace the existing 1-12 series (AVIA). Under this system, which covered all aspects of the Ministry's work, each branch, or, in some cases, a group of branches, was allocated a unique 2 - letter combination for use as the first element of the file reference.
On return to the War Office registry some files had their references prefixed with the number 4.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files relating to functions taken over by the Ministry of Aviation see AVIA 65
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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 Supply, 1939-1959
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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101 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1972 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14491/
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