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Centrifuges: correspondence concerning setting up the Working Group on the Development...
Catalogue reference: FD 23/1753
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This record is about the Centrifuges: correspondence concerning setting up the Working Group on the Development... dating from 1964-1968 in the series Medical Research Council: Registered Files, Scientific Matters (S Series). It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FD 23/1753
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Centrifuges: correspondence concerning setting up the Working Group on the Development of C-Type Centrifuges; papers and minutes of meetings held in 1964 and on 6th September 1968
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- S471/4
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- Not Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2459642/
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FD 23
Medical Research Council: Registered Files, Scientific Matters (S Series)
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