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Admiralty and successors: Royal Airship Works and successors: Reports
Catalogue reference: AVIA 20
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AVIA 20
Reports of the Research and Development Establishment and its predecessors, the Royal Airship Works and the Balloon Development Establishment.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AVIA 20
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty and successors: Royal Airship Works and successors: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1915-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports of the Research and Development Establishment and its predecessors, the Royal Airship Works and the Balloon Development Establishment.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records are arranged in the following manner:
- KB series AVIA 20/1-149, 175-267, 635
- C series AVIA 20/150-174, 268-467
- M series AVIA 20/468-563
- O series AVIA 20/564-634
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
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- Admiralty, Naval Aircraft Works, 1917-1919
- Air Ministry, Balloon Development Establishment, 1938-1940
- Air Ministry, Naval Aircraft Works, 1919-1921
- Air Ministry, Royal Airship Works, 1921-1936
- Ministry of Aircraft Production, Balloon Development Establishment, 1940-1946
- Ministry of Supply, Research and Development Establishment, 1946-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 635 files and volumes
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2600/
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