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Series
Remploy Ltd: Furniture Group: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: BM 15
What's it about?
BM 15
Records relating to activities of factories in the Furniture Group, comprising material relating to policy matters, publicity, and catalogues.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BM 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Remploy Ltd: Furniture Group: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1976-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records relating to activities of factories in the Furniture Group, comprising material relating to policy matters, publicity, and catalogues.
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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)
- Remploy Ltd, Furniture Group, 1972-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 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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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
- Manufacturing
- Disability
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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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The Furniture Group came into existence in the mid-1960s as the Furniture and Allied Products Group. Following a company reorganisation in 1972/1973, this became the Furniture Group, which took over part of the work undertaken by the former Engineering Group.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2933/
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Remploy Ltd: Furniture Group: Correspondence and Papers
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