Record revealed
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Series
Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Communications Department: Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 937
What's it about?
CO 937
This series contains records of the Communications Department dealing with posts and telecommunications, civil aviation, road transport and merchant shipping.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 937
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Communications Department: Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Communications Department dealing with posts and telecommunications, civil aviation, road transport and merchant shipping.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 605 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1977 Foreign and Commonwealth 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to this correspondence see CO 973
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5126/
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