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Board of Longitude: Papers
Catalogue reference: RGO 14
Date: 1605-1830
Records of the Board of Longitude.These include papers about the discovery of methods of measuring longitude at sea, notably the work of John...
Series
Colonial Products Research Council and Colonial Products Council: Minutes and Papers
Catalogue reference: CO 899
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CO 899
This series contains papers of the Colonial Products Research Council and its successor the Colonial Products Council.
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CO 899
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Products Research Council and Colonial Products Council: Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1943-1959
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers of the Colonial Products Research Council and its successor the Colonial Products Council.
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For further records see AY 3
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Colonial Products Council, 1954-1959
- Colonial Products Research Council, 1943-1954
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Research
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A Colonial Products Research Council was constituted early in 1943 following the recommendation of a Committee of Alternative Uses for Colonial Products set up in 1941. Its function was to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to the research that should be conducted on the renewable resources of the colonies to help bring about their greater use. It had its own director of research and initiated and supervised work actually carried out by existing research bodies such as the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Agricultural Research Council. The council was accommodated at the Imperial Institute.
In 1954 it was replaced by a Colonial Products Council, which in addition to performing the duties of its predecessor oversaw the work of the Colonial Products Laboratory. In 1959 it was dissolved and replaced by the Tropical Products Institute Steering Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5088/
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