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Series
Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: BT 28
What's it about?
BT 28
Records of the Ministry of Production, including some of the Ministry of Supply (SUPP), which passed to the Board of Trade.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1936-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Ministry of Production, including some of the Ministry of Supply (SUPP), which passed to the Board of Trade.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series begins at BT 28/83 and gives the reference numbers of the files in each box as far as BT 28/274, after which the descriptions start. BT 28/1-82 have been renumbered BT 28/280-1200.
The significance of the file reference numbers for the Parliamentary Questions and Answers and Non-Munition Supply Sub-series (BT 28/83-243 and BT 28/244-274) is as follows:
- ALP - Anglo-American Co-ordinating Committee (Supply)
- AR - Allocations Register
- CGMT/SEC - Controller General of Machine Tools (Secetariat)
- CJAC - Central Joint Advisory Committee
- ECH - Empire Clearing House
- HIC - Progress Division
- IC - Industrial Capacity
- ICC - Industrial Capacity Committee
- IDPC - Chief Production Executives' Committee
- 200/ALL - Central Priority Department: Allocations
- 200/GEN - Central Priority Department: General
- 200/RS - Central Priority Department: Records and Statistics
- 213/GEN - Sub-Committee on Internal Combustion Engines
- JIS - Joint Industrial Staff
- JWPS - Joint War Production Staff
- M - Materials
- MISC - Miscellaneous
- MLE - Munitions Management and Labour Efficiency Committee
- PE/AR - Production Executive: Allocation and Records
- PE/IC - Production Executive: Industrial Capacity
- PE/PR - Production Executive: Priority of Production Direction; 1941
- PE/RM - Production Executive: Raw Materials
- PEC - Paper Economy Committee
- PP - Production Programme
- RM - Raw Materials
- SEC - Secretariat
- NM - Non-Munitions
- NM (MISC) - Non-Munitions (Miscellaneous)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the Ministry of Supply registered files (200 series) in AVIA 22
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1218 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Trade and commerce
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For indexes see BT 29 and BT 30
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3071/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,674,133 records
Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers
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