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Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888:...
Catalogue reference: BT 283
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BT 283
Annual returns submitted by canal (and railway and canal) companies to the Companies Registration Office under s.39 of the 1888 Railway and Canal Traffic Act. They give the name of the company, the address of its principal office, the name of its...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 283
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888: Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889-1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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Annual returns submitted by canal (and railway and canal) companies to the Companies Registration Office under s.39 of the 1888 Railway and Canal Traffic Act. They give the name of the company, the address of its principal office, the name of its principal officer and a brief description of the canal.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numerically by company number
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 84 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Railways
- Trade and commerce
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- BT 283/84 is an alphabetically arranged index which indicates the company number of canal companies.
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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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Under s.39 of the Railway and Canal Act 1888 every canal company was required to send to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies a return stating the name of the company, a short description of their canal, the name of the Principal Officer and the place of their office, or if more than one office, the name of their principal office. S.39 of the 1888 Act was repealed by s.24(4) of the Transport Act 1962.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3319/
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