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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
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Department of Transport: Traffic Area Co-Ordination Division: Registered Files (TAC...
Catalogue reference: LM 21
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LM 21
This series contains registered files of the Traffic Area Co-Ordination Division of the Department of Transport and successors. The series records relate to the co-ordination of policy and practice in traffic areas, the co-ordination of vehicle...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LM 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Traffic Area Co-Ordination Division: Registered Files (TAC and TACD)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1992-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Traffic Area Co-Ordination Division of the Department of Transport and successors. The series records relate to the co-ordination of policy and practice in traffic areas, the co-ordination of vehicle enforcement with the Vehicle Inspectorate, operator and vehicle licensing for goods vehicles and public service vehicles, and associated regulations
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in former reference order within each accession
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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)
- TAC and TACD Prefixes
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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)
- Department of Transport, Traffic Area Co-ordination Division, 1993-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 35 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2023 Department for Transport
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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)
- This series is accruing.
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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 records were created by the Traffic Area Co-ordination Division (TACD) of the Department of Transport from 1993 to 1997. The Division was replaced in 1997 by Traffic Area Network Unit (TANU). TANU continued to use the TAC prefix
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17106999/
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