Division
Records of the Communications Department
Catalogue reference: Division within CO
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Division within CO
Records of the Communications Department relating to colonial communications matters.Correspondence of the Communications Department between 1943 and 1961 is in CO 937, with registers in CO 973
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within CO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Communications Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1961
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Communications Department relating to colonial communications matters.
Correspondence of the Communications Department between 1943 and 1961 is in CO 937, with registers in CO 973
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records relating to the Department's work as part of the Department of Technical Co-operation, and again in the Colonial Office after 1965 see OD 23
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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)
- Colonial Office, Communications Department, 1943-1961
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 series
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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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Before August 1943 all colonial business relating to communications matters was dealt with by the General Division, but at that date a Communications Department was established to be responsible for posts and telecommunications, civil aviation, road transport and merchant shipping. In 1947 responsibility for shipping was transferred to the Commercial Relations and Supplies Department. By 1949 it had become part of an Economic Division. It was transferred to the Department of Technical Co-operation in 1961 and thence to the Ministry of Overseas Development but re-established within the Economic Division of the Colonial Office in 1965 and absorbed by the Commonwealth Office in 1966.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C447/
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Records of the Communications Department