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Series
Ministry of Supply: Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria: Reports and Memoranda
Catalogue reference: AVIA 45
What's it about?
AVIA 45
Reports and memoranda on the susceptibility of equipment and materials to deterioration under tropical conditions, and quarterly reports on the work of the Tropical Testing Establishment from 1948 to 1958.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AVIA 45
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Supply: Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria: Reports and Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
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1945-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports and memoranda on the susceptibility of equipment and materials to deterioration under tropical conditions, and quarterly reports on the work of the Tropical Testing Establishment from 1948 to 1958.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria, 1944-1958
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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816 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1977 Ministry of Defence
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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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- Topics
- Africa
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The reports in this series do not constitute a complete consecutive run; they are however all that were received from Tropical Testing Establishment upon its closure
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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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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In August 1944 a combined War Office/Ministry of Supply mission visited West Africa to explore facilities for storage and exposure tests on service equipment for use in the tropics. As a result, the West African Tropical Testing Establishment (W.A.T.T.E.) was established in Nigeria, with its headquarters at Lagos and main testing area at Port Harcourt. A similar unit, specialising in the testing of signals and radar equipment (S.R.T.T.E.) and administered by the Ministry of Supply was already in existence in Nigeria, and in April 1946 the two establishments were merged into a single organisation, the Tropical Testing Establishment, administered by the joint Ministry of Supply and Aircraft Production. It continued the work of testing a wide range of service equipment and packing until it closed in September 1958. Residual reports on outstanding matters were subsequently issued by the Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aviation up until 1961.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2625/
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