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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Road Research Board
Catalogue reference: DSIR 12
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DSIR 12
Files relating to the Road Research Board, and minutes of meetings and submitted papers of the Board and of the various committees of the Board set up to study particular aspects of research into road construction, materials and safety, including...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DSIR 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Road Research Board
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Date (When the record was created)
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1931-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to the Road Research Board, and minutes of meetings and submitted papers of the Board and of the various committees of the Board set up to study particular aspects of research into road construction, materials and safety, including the Road Tar Research Committee. The series also contains files on co-operative research undertaken jointly with other bodies.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Largely arranged by committee and subcommittee. Within each committee, the papers are arranged by original document number. Where records are described at item level, these document numbers have been used as item numbers; a single sequence of item numbers may cut across several pieces.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further board records see:
For Road Research Laboratory registered files see: DSIR 70
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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)
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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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- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Road (Materials and Construction) Research Board, 1936-1965
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Road Research Board, 1933-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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477 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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- Topics
- Research
- Construction industries
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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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A Road Research Board was appointed in 1930 for the purpose of advising generally on the conduct of road research by the department, in particular to prepare and submit an initial programme of research and thereafter annually a programme of work. This work continued to be limited mainly to the consideration of engineering problems of road construction and materials. In addition to research at Harmondsworth substantial sections of the board's programme was carried out at the National Physical Laboratory and the Building Research Station. In 1936 the board's title was changed to the Road (Materials and Construction) Research Board, and its terms of reference were amended. Its function was now to advise generally on the conduct of research on road materials and methods of construction undertaken by the department, and in particular to submit annually a programme of work and a report.
In 1945 the terms of reference of the board were amended to include road and vehicle safety among its research activities, and its title reverted to Road Research Board.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6344/
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