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Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports...
Catalogue reference: BT 184
What's it about?
BT 184
These reports are selected from those submitted to the Board of Trade and its successors in 1952 and from 1957 onwards. Reports are required under weights and measures regulations which the Board of Trade and its successors are empowered to make...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 184
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports of Local Authorities
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1952-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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These reports are selected from those submitted to the Board of Trade and its successors in 1952 and from 1957 onwards.
Reports are required under weights and measures regulations which the Board of Trade and its successors are empowered to make under the Weights and Measures Acts of 1904, 1963, 1979 and 1985. Each local weights and measures authority is required to report on its functions annually to the Secretary of State. The records contain statistical reports of the numbers of weighing and measuring instruments examined, numbers of premises visited, equipment submitted for tests, inspections and testing of trade equipment, staff, fees and salaries.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetically by place name
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Standard Weights and Measures Department, 1957-1966
- Board of Trade, Standards Department, 1922-1957
- Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, Standards, Weights and Measures Division, 1974-1976
- Department of Trade and Industry, Standards, Weights and Measures Division, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 164 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All reports prior to 1952, and those between 1953 and 1957, have been destroyed. Some reports voluntarily submitted by authorities abroad are included. Following a re-appraisal of this series in 2005 records will no longer be selected.
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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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Inspectors of Weights and Measures have been appointed by local authorities under the Weights and Measures Act of 1878 and subsequent Acts.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3222/
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Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports of Local Authorities
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