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War Office and Ministry of Defence: Royal Armoured Corps: Correspondence and Reports
Catalogue reference: WO 341
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WO 341
This series comprises correspondence and reports of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC). The papers consist of liaison letters issued by the Director, Royal Armoured Corps; reports of conferences; trials reports and assessments of new vehicles and...
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WO 341
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office and Ministry of Defence: Royal Armoured Corps: Correspondence and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1947-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises correspondence and reports of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC).
The papers consist of liaison letters issued by the Director, Royal Armoured Corps; reports of conferences; trials reports and assessments of new vehicles and equipment etc, most of which originate from the RAC Centre at Bovington in Dorset.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Clothing and Equipment Physiological Research Establishment see WO 352
For similar material, in the records of the Fighting Vehicle Research and Development Establishment, see WO 194
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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, 1947-1947
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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214 files and volumes
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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 1992 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An organization chart (copied from WO 32/14081 - charters for RAC training establishments 1952-1964) of the RAC Centre (1962) is in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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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 Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) was formed in April 1939 to group together the mechanized regiments of cavalry of the army, and the Royal Tank Corps (immediately re-designated the Royal Tank Regiment). The RAC is third in the army order of precedence, after the Household Cavalry and the Royal Horse Artillery. Although the regiments of Household Cavalry (The Life Guards and The Blues & Royals) are now armoured, they are not part of the RAC.
Since the creation of the RAC, the army has undergone several periods of reorganisation and amalgamation, including that dictated by the government's Options for Change programme of the early 1990s.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- A number of published sources, but especially the quarterly and annual Army Lists from 1939, give annual details of the constituent regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps. Copies of the Army Lists are available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14545/
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