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War Cabinet and Cabinet: Defence Committee (Supply): Minutes and Papers (DC(S) and...
Catalogue reference: CAB 70
What's it about?
CAB 70
This series consists of minutes, memoranda and papers of the Defence Committee (Supply) and of its Sub-Committee on the Allocation of Small Arms Ammunition.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAB 70
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet and Cabinet: Defence Committee (Supply): Minutes and Papers (DC(S) and SAA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1940-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes, memoranda and papers of the Defence Committee (Supply) and of its Sub-Committee on the Allocation of Small Arms Ammunition.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Subject and chronological
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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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DC(S) and SAA 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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- Cabinet, Defence Committee (Supply), 1945-1946
- Cabinet, Defence Committee, Sub-Committee on the Allocation of Small Arms Ammunition, 1945-1946
- War Cabinet, Defence Committee (Supply), 1940-1945
- War Cabinet, Defence Committee, Sub-Committee on the Allocation of Small Arms Ammunition, 1940-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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13 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1969 Cabinet Office
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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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- Topics
- Weapons
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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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 Defence Committee (Supply) was one of two panels of the Defence Committee (the other being Operations), which was established following the appointment of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in May 1940, and was a successor to the Military Co-ordination Committee.
The Defence Committee (Supply) had flexible membership made up of Supply Ministers and Service representatives, and was summoned by Churchill to deal with particular crises in the supply of equipment to the armed forces. It declined in importance during the Second World War, with meetings becoming fewer, as the production and supply machinery of the Ministry of Production became established.
The Defence Committee continued after the war, being succeeded by the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee in 1964.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3877/
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War Cabinet and Cabinet: Defence Committee (Supply): Minutes and Papers (DC(S) and SAA Series)
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