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Department of Industry,1974-1983, and successors: Computers, Systems and Electronic...
Catalogue reference: PV 1
What's it about?
PV 1
Registered files of the Computer Aided Design Centre. The files contain minutes of management meetings, papers on the Centre's organisation and privatisation in 1983.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PV 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Industry,1974-1983, and successors: Computers, Systems and Electronic Division and predecessors; Computer Aided Design Centre Registered Files (CAD file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1968-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Computer Aided Design Centre. The files contain minutes of management meetings, papers on the Centre's organisation and privatisation in 1983.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The files are arranged in numerical order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also FV 29
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- CAD file series
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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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- Department of Industry, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1974-1983
- Department of Trade and Industry, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1970-1974
- Ministry of Technology, Computer Aided Design Centre, 1969-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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- Topics
- Computing
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series relates to sections 2.2.1.1 (formulation of policy and management of public resources) and 2.2.1.2 (management of the economy), of the Acquisition Policy and section 8.3.8 (Computers and Electronics) of the OSP on Industrial Policy.
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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 Computer Aided Design Centre was established in 1969 at Cambridge to develop computer-aided design (CAD) systems for chemical, mechanical, electrical, electronic and civil engineering, building, construction and industrial design. The Centre was linked to Cambridge University and its objective was to encourage industry to make use of CAD.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15780/
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