Series
British Railways Board: Controller Corporate Pensions and Co-ordinator Private Capital;...
Catalogue reference: AN 198
What's it about?
AN 198
This series consists of records created by Christopher George Lewin. They cover the period during which he was Controller Corporate Pensions and incorporate records of investment in works of art by the British Railways (BR) Pension Fund. They...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AN 198
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Railways Board: Controller Corporate Pensions and Co-ordinator Private Capital; Papers of C G Lewin
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Date (When the record was created)
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1974-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of records created by Christopher George Lewin. They cover the period during which he was Controller Corporate Pensions and incorporate records of investment in works of art by the British Railways (BR) Pension Fund.
They also cover the period during which he was Coordinator Private Capital and and therefore incorporate records of the private sector involvement in services for BR and services provided in BR's sphere of enterprise, including the London-Heathrow rail link and the Liverpool Street and Broad Street re-development. The series also includes a study, by Lewin, of operational efficiency in BRB headquarters.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Broadly chronological.
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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)
- Lewin, Christopher George, 1970-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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51 file(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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British Railways Board until February 2001; then British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series ran from 1974 to 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Only records of policy have been retained. They are kept under the appraisal criterion of the acquisitions policy related to the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK.
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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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Christopher George Lewin became Controller, Corporate Pensions in 1973 having served in Corporate Pensions since 1970. He served on the Works of Art Investment Sub-committee. In 1978 he was seconded by C A Rose, board member for personnel, to undertake a study of operational efficiency at British Railways Board (BRB) headquarters.
In 1981 Lewin was appointed Coordinator of Private Capital, initially under the Finance Director, British Rail Investments Ltd, and later under the Director of Finance and Planning, BRB, and, from 1986, the Managing Director, Procurement and Special Projects, BRB.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15796/
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Within the department: AN
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British Railways Board: Controller Corporate Pensions and Co-ordinator Private Capital; Papers of C G Lewin