Series
Board of Inland Revenue: Stamp Duty on Newspapers: Correspondence
Catalogue reference: IR 56
Date: 1836-1870
This series consists of surviving nineteenth century files from the Board of Inland Revenue relating to stamp duty on newspapers.
Series
Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport):...
Catalogue reference: BT 193
What's it about?
BT 193
This series contains papers of the Ministry of Transport's Commercial Services Division.Matters dealt with include exports policy, tonnage requirements, freight rates, flag discrimination, passenger travel, shipping documents, overseas ports and...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 193
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport): Papers
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1964
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains papers of the Ministry of Transport's Commercial Services Division.
Matters dealt with include exports policy, tonnage requirements, freight rates, flag discrimination, passenger travel, shipping documents, overseas ports and docks, USA and Canadian shipping legislation as it affected British shipping, etc. There are also minutes, papers etc. of various shipping committees and working parties, some of an inter-governmental nature.
Also included in this series are a few post-1960 papers of the Foreign Shipping Relations Division.
-
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
-
Earlier files of the Commercial Services Division will be found in MT 59
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
-
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Commercial Services Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Commercial Services Division, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Foreign Shipping Relations Division, 1960-1965
- Ministry of War Transport, Commercial Services Division, 1941-1946
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 166 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
-
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))
-
Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred from the Ministry of Transport in February 1965 to the Board of Trade.
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The Board of Trade took over the merchant shipping and shipbuilding functions from the Ministry of Transport in February 1965.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3231/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
2,678,293 records
You are currently looking at the series: BT 193
Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport): Papers
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.