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2 items extracted from CAB 131/16. 'South Uist Inter Services Range'. Charts of North...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1403
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from CAB 131/16. 'South Uist Inter Services Range'. Charts of North... dating from 1955 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 1/1403
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1955
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items extracted from CAB 131/16. 'South Uist Inter Services Range'. Charts of North Atlantic Ocean: (1) between 7°W and 11°W and between 57°10'N and 58°40'N; (2) between 7°W and 7°30'W and between 57°20'N and 57°30'N, showing part of Benbecula Island. Both show radar stations. Scale: (1) None shown; (2) 1 inch to 1 statute mile [1:63,360]. Compass rose, true meridian and magnetic variation. Inset: (item 2 only) North West Scotland, The Minch, islands of Skye, Lewis, North Uist and South Uist. [Produced by] Works Directorate Air Ministry 4435/55, May 1955. (Sgnd) E A Humphries for WDO 2 and A G Guelan for DGW. 'C.A., L.E. Lord'. Marked: 'Secret' and 'Appendix "A"'. To illustrate memorandum by Minister of Defence, entitled 'The Provision of a Guided Weapons Training Range in the Hebrides' (Cabinet Defence Committee paper DC (55) 12, of 23 June 1955).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 33.5 cm x 41 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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