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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
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Department of Transport: Transport and Road Research Laboratory and Transport Research...
Catalogue reference: AY 31
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AY 31
This series consists of a numbered series of reports issued by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL) with the reference CR, first issued in 1985 and still continuing. These reports are produced from time to time by external...
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- AY 31
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Transport: Transport and Road Research Laboratory and Transport Research Laboratory: Contractors Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1984-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a numbered series of reports issued by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL) with the reference CR, first issued in 1985 and still continuing. These reports are produced from time to time by external contractors sponsored by the TRRL and published by them if they consider the information to be useful to other researchers.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 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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- Transport and Road Research Laboratory, 1972-1993
- Transport Research Laboratory, 1994-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 358 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series was selected without review in its entirety. When this selection decision was made report numbers were allocated by the department to projects which had not yet started. Gaps in the report numbering occur in the list where the department decided to cancel the project.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2745/
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