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Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Directorate of All Weather Operations:...
Catalogue reference: BT 332
What's it about?
BT 332
This series contains files of the All Weather Operations Directorate of the Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessor. The records concern the implementation of the UK all-weather operations programme in general and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 332
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Directorate of All Weather Operations: Registered Files (WS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the All Weather Operations Directorate of the Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessor. The records concern the implementation of the UK all-weather operations programme in general and cover such subjects as category II and III operations, fog dispersal systems, automatic landing systems, weather minima and the organisation and policy of the directorate. They include several files containing technical papers.
The prefix WS stands for Weather Systems. It was first raised in 1968 and continued in use until 1972. Some of the files have been re-registered from the JF and CO series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the registered files of the Directorate of Control (Operations) Branches 1-6, 14 and 15: AVIA 108
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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WS file series
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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, Directorate of All Weather Operations, 1968-1970
- Department of Trade and Industry, Directorate of All Weather Operations, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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31 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1968-1972.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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General administrative case files have been destroyed.
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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 Directorate of All Weather Operations was set up by the Board of Trade in 1968 as part of comprehensive reorganisation of the civil aviation branches and its main function was the coordination of all aspects of the UK programme aimed at achieving all-weather operations in civil aviation. Its areas of responsibility included aircraft such as automatic landing and guidance systems for London (Heathrow) Airport.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3368/
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Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Directorate of All Weather Operations: Registered Files (WS Series)
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