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Report on the British Indian Army, 1943
This Second World War War Office document assessed the British Indian Army's battle readiness and made recommendations for its development.
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Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive and predecessors: Directorate of Technical...
Catalogue reference: DEFE 54
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DEFE 54
The papers in this series are in official file covers, but the files themselves are without prefixes, and do not appear to have been formally registered. The selected files relate to the Directorate of Technical Costs' oversight of contracts for...
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DEFE 54
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive and predecessors: Directorate of Technical Costs: Concorde Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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The papers in this series are in official file covers, but the files themselves are without prefixes, and do not appear to have been formally registered. The selected files relate to the Directorate of Technical Costs' oversight of contracts for research and development work connected with the Concorde project. The covers bear 'task' numbers which were used by the directorate to identify individual monitoring projects.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The files are closely linked to the registered Concorde-related files in AVIA 93
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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)
- Ministry of Defence, Directorate of Technical Costs, 1966-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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9 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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These files were transferred from the Ministry of Defence to the Department for Trade and Industry, but no papers were subsequently added to them.
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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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The directorate was responsible for estimating the prime cost (materials and labour) of production under efficient management of supplies ordered by Directors of Contracts in the Ministry of Technology and the Ministry of Defence. The Directorate was inherited by the Ministry of Technology (Mintech) from the Ministry of Aviation when the latter was abolished in 1967. On the abolition of Mintech in 1970 it passed briefly to the Ministry of Aviation Supply, then (in 1971) to the Ministry of Defence (MOD). In Mintech and the Ministry of Aviation Supply it was based in Contracts Division, while in the MOD it formed part of the Procurement Executive.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5812/
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