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1 item extracted from CAB 131/17. 'Africa-Far East (Outline Planning Chart)': map...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1402
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from CAB 131/17. 'Africa-Far East (Outline Planning Chart)': map... dating from [1956] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/1402
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1956]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from CAB 131/17. 'Africa-Far East (Outline Planning Chart)': map shows Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Printed by Photographic & Reproductions Branch, Air Ministry, London. Coloured over-prints show existing and planned air routes between the United Kingdom (RAF Lyneham) and Australia (Darwin), with intermediary stop-overs. Key to routes. Marked: 'Secret', and 'Annex to D.C. 56 (19)'. To illustrate memorandum by the Secretary of State for Air, entitled 'The Indian Ocean Air Route' (Cabinet Defence Committee paper, D.C. (56) 19 of 4 July 1956).
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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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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- OR 6781
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 31 cm x 44 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984423/
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