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Series
War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts: Works Contract Precedent Books
Catalogue reference: WORK 52
What's it about?
WORK 52
This series consists of two volumes covering the period 1914-1946. They contain contract precedents, entries of contracts for various types of building works, including bills of quantity, specifications, estimates, labour, Treasury decisions,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WORK 52
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office, Directorate of Army Contracts: Works Contract Precedent Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of two volumes covering the period 1914-1946. They contain contract precedents, entries of contracts for various types of building works, including bills of quantity, specifications, estimates, labour, Treasury decisions, claims, compensation and damages, depressed areas and other special allocations.
The entries are in manuscript and are in the form either of a brief description of the precedent, or a definition of the precedent with a contracts file number reference.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Volumes of a similar nature but dealing with supplies contracts may be found in WO 254
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Later volumes are not known to have survived. The contracts files also seem to have been destroyed.
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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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- 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, Directorate of Army Contracts, 1924-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These volumes originated in the War Office Directorate of Contracts and were probably transferred to the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works in 1963. They do not appear to have been previously transferred to the Ministry of Supply when it took over the War Office Directorate of Contracts in 1939.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14653/
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