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Series
Board of Trade and successors: Overseas Projects Group: Registered Files (OPG Series)
Catalogue reference: BT 343
What's it about?
BT 343
The files in this series are concerned with the establishment of the Board of Trade and its successors and organisation of the Overseas Projects Group (OPG). The files relate to OPG's remit to explore the export potential of various products and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 343
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Overseas Projects Group: Registered Files (OPG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series are concerned with the establishment of the Board of Trade and its successors and organisation of the Overseas Projects Group (OPG). The files relate to OPG's remit to explore the export potential of various products and to promote UK export activities, in particular large construction projects overseas. There are also files concerned with the export promotion of various industrial sectors:- railways, construction, hospitals, offshore oil and the nationalised industries. The series also contains the records of the Overseas Projects Group Advisory Panel and the Overseas Projects Board.
The opening of the OPG file series coincided with the establishment of OPG as a separate division in November 1968. Some of the files in this series had been originally raised in the EE or XP file series, but were later re-registered into the OPG series. The last files in the OPG series were raised in 1980, coinciding with the replacement of the Export Development Division by the Projects and Export Policy Division.
Includes files re-registered from the XP series: BT 333
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former reference order
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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)
- OPG file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Overseas Projects Group, 1968-1970
- Department of Trade and Industry, British Overseas Trade Board, 1983-1988
- Department of Trade and Industry, Overseas Projects Group, 1970-1974
- Department of Trade, British Overseas Trade Board, 1974-1983
- Department of Trade, Overseas Finance and Planning Division, 1974-1976
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 247 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 Department of Trade and Industry
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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)
- 1968-1980
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The files have been selected in accordance with Acquisition Policy Theme 2.1.1.2 Management of the economy and 2.2.1.3 External relations and defence policy. Most of the files are concerned with the policy of the Overseas Projects Group. A small number of illustrative case files have been selected
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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 Overseas Project Group (OPG) was originally set up in January 1968 as part of the Board of Trade's Export and Promotion Division. Its function was to act as a co-ordinating focal point for industry and various government departments concerned with major capital projects overseas. In November of that year it was established as a separate division.
When, in 1970, the Board of Trade was amalgamated with the Ministry of Technology to form the first Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the OPG became the responsibility of the new department. By early 1971, OPG had become a branch of the Overseas Projects and Technology Division, which was renamed, in June 1972, the Overseas Finance and Projects Division. In 1973, this became the Overseas Finance and Planning Division (OFP) and the Overseas Project Group was known as OFP2.
When, in 1974, DTI was divided into the Department of Trade and the Department of Industry, the OPG passed to the newly created Department of Trade. In March 1975 OFP was dissolved but OPG continued with its responsibilities unchanged and reported directly to the Chief Executive of the British Overseas Trade Board. In 1978, OPG became a branch of the Export Development Division and remained so until 1980 when that division was replaced by the Projects and Export Policy Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3379/
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