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Board of Trade and successors: Industries Division 1 and Chemicals and Textiles Division:...

Catalogue reference: BT 344

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BT 344

This series contains policy, general and record files of the Industries Division and its successors.The files concern the state of the British textile industry, overseas trade and the rubber industry.The series includes re-registered files which...

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BT 344

Title
Board of Trade and successors: Industries Division 1 and Chemicals and Textiles Division: Registered Files (IND 1 (P, G and R Suffix) Series)
Date

1967-1975

Description

This series contains policy, general and record files of the Industries Division and its successors.

The files concern the state of the British textile industry, overseas trade and the rubber industry.

The series includes re-registered files which would otherwise be found amongst the records of the Department of Trade and Industry (FV) division: Records of the Industrial and the Industrial and Commercial Policy Divisions and Groups.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

IND 1 (P, G and R Suffix) files series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Board of Trade, Industries Division 1, 1968-1969
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Chemicals and Textiles Division, 1970-1974
  • Ministry of Technology, Chemicals and Textiles Division, 1969-1970
Physical description

69 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

Responsibilities of the Industries Division branches were briefly transferred to the Ministry of Technology in 1969, before passing to the newly created Department of Trade and Industry in 1970. Industries Division 1 was responsible for matters concerning commodities, mainly textiles, leather, flax, hemp, jute, chemicals and tobacco.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3380/

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