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Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers

Catalogue reference: BT 28

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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

Reference
BT 28
Title
Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers
Date
1936-1946
Description

Records of the Ministry of Production, including some of the Ministry of Supply (SUPP), which passed to the Board of Trade.

Arrangement
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)

Related material

See also the Ministry of Supply registered files (200 series) in AVIA 22

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
1218 boxes and files
Access conditions
Open
Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Unpublished finding aids
For indexes see BT 29 and BT 30
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3071/

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Ministry of Production: Correspondence and Papers

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