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Air Ministry: Headquarters No. 90 (Signals) Group and predecessors: Technical Drawings

Catalogue reference: AIR 56

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AIR 56

This series includes drawings of transmitting and receiving stations, aerial systems, and various parts of telecommunications equipment. Drawings of an earlier date than 1946 originated with the several predecessors of No. 90 Group.

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AIR 56

Title
Air Ministry: Headquarters No. 90 (Signals) Group and predecessors: Technical Drawings
Date

1934-1952

Description

This series includes drawings of transmitting and receiving stations, aerial systems, and various parts of telecommunications equipment. Drawings of an earlier date than 1946 originated with the several predecessors of No. 90 Group.

Related material

See also the Defence Signals Staff registered files in DEFE 26

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Air Ministry, Headquarters No 90 (Signals) Group, 1946-1958
Physical description

61 flat sheet(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Administrative / biographical background

No. 90 Group was formed at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, by the merger, on 25 April 1946, of Nos. 26 and 60 Groups, when it also assumed responsibilities previously exercised by various directorates of the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Aircraft Production. It was responsible for all aspects of radio engineering, electronic warfare, telecommunications and the operation of navigational aids in the Royal Air Force. Drawings of an earlier date than the merger originated with the predecessors of No. 90 Group.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2111/

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