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Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow

Catalogue reference: POST 124

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This record is about the Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow dating from 1945-1980.

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Reference
POST 124
Title
Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow
Date
1945-1980
Description

This series includes reports and speech notes and papers relating to the Post Office Industrial Democracy experiment in the 1970s.

Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.

Note
This series number was initially erroneously allocated to a website series and released as that series; corrected in March 2013 (please see POST 182).
Held by
The Postal Museum
Originals held at
The Postal Museum
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Post Office, 1635-1635
Physical description
13 file(s)
Access conditions
No records held at The National Archives for this series
Subjects
Topics
Labour
Communications
Personal and family papers
Administrative / biographical background

Barlow was Chairman of the Post Office in 1977, at the time the Post Office split into two separate functions. He was to have been Chairman of BT as a privatised company but when the government did not go ahead, he returned to the private sector.

Record URL
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