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A letter by the women workers at Fords of Dagenham
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Series
Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 112
What's it about?
BD 112
Registered files of the Roads Administartion Division concerning: pre-construction programming of road schemes; budgetary control; contracts and agreements; highways orders; land acquisition and management; planning blight and compensation;...
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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BD 112
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1970-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Roads Administartion Division concerning: pre-construction programming of road schemes; budgetary control; contracts and agreements; highways orders; land acquisition and management; planning blight and compensation; administration for motorway and trunk road new constructions and improvement, maintenance, street lighting and signals; abnormal loads and road classification.
The WR series was superseded by the ZB and ZC prefixes
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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)
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WR series
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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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- Welsh Government, 2011-2011
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
- Welsh Office, Transport and Highways Directorate, 1965-1973
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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26 file(s)
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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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In 2005 National Assembly for Wales
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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
- Road Transport
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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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Records were in semi-current storage at the Assembly Records Centre, Neptune Point, Ocean Way, Cardiff CF24 5PG
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1976 - 2002
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The following criteria for selection of policy files was used: design, construction and maintenance of key roads (M4, A465, A55); policy on financial support for road building and passenger transport; promotion of North to South and South to North transport links; Rhoose Airport development; Channel Tunnel effect on Welsh transport infrastructure
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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 Roads Administration Division was the successor body to the Roads Division (Highways Group) of the Welsh Office and was formed in 1976. It was part of the Transport and Highways Group. The Division was organised into four branches: the Land & Compensation Branch responsible for acquisition and management of land for construction and maintenance of roads and motorways; the Statutory Orders and Procedures Branch, responsible for planning blight, compulsory purchase orders, highways orders and public local inquiries; the Financial Management Branch responsible for the financial control of the roads programme; the IT Systems Branch responsible for the divisions information technology requirements.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16249/
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Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)
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