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Highways Agency and predecessors: Research Division: Registered Files (RED Series)
Catalogue reference: HWA 31
What's it about?
HWA 31
This series contains records relating to the research and development into highway construction and maintenance of the road network.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HWA 31
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Title (The name of the record)
- Highways Agency and predecessors: Research Division: Registered Files (RED Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the research and development into highway construction and maintenance of the road network.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This series is arranged in former reference order.
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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)
- RED
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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)
- Highways Agency, 1994-2015
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 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)
- 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 research and development into the construction of the strategic roadwork was undertaken by the Department for Transport and its executive agency, Highways Agency. Some research and development will have been undertaken with Transport Research Laboratory (establish in 1993 as the Road Research Laboratory (RRL) prior to privatisation in 1996).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17871409/
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