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Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport):...

Catalogue reference: BT 193

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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...

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BT 193

Title
Ministry of War Transport and successors: Commercial Services Division (Transport): Papers
Date

1944-1964

Description

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

Earlier files of the Commercial Services Division will be found in MT 59

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • 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

166 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Subjects
Topics
Taxation
Trade and commerce
Transport management
Americas
Custodial history

Transferred from the Ministry of Transport in February 1965 to the Board of Trade.

Administrative / biographical background

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/

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