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Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments:...
Catalogue reference: BT 273
What's it about?
BT 273
Account cards showing the value of enemy assets seized in the United Kingdom kept by the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments. The Account Cards in this series are incomplete. There are no Account Cards for...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 273
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Account Cards
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1950-c1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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Account cards showing the value of enemy assets seized in the United Kingdom kept by the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments.
The Account Cards in this series are incomplete. There are no Account Cards for Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Estonia or the ‘German Baltic States’.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The cards are all grouped by country of enemy. The majority are then filed by TWE file number, but for assets where no TWE number could be traced are separately batched in alphabetical order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the records of the Second World War depts
Files of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957
- Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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256 card(s)
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There are no indexes to the account cards and the index to the TWE files has not survived. A numerical list of TWE file numbers survives in BT 271/807-815. Various indexes to vesting orders in BT 272 may assist in some cases.
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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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The decision to prepare summary accounts cards from the account folders appears to have been taken in 1950, probably to assist the takeover of assets by the various administrators from the Custodian of Enemy Property.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3309/
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Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Account Cards
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