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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...
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: National Engineering Laboratory:...
Catalogue reference: DSIR 68
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DSIR 68
Unregistered folders of correspondence and papers, ring binders containing test results by the National Engineering Laboratory and a series of "Technical Notes" by the Staveley Research Department.
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DSIR 68
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: National Engineering Laboratory: Staveley Machine Tool Project, Unregistered Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1961-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Unregistered folders of correspondence and papers, ring binders containing test results by the National Engineering Laboratory and a series of "Technical Notes" by the Staveley Research Department.
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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)
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Engineering Laboratory, Staveley Machine Tool Project, 1962-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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26 volume(s)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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- Topics
- Research
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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 Staveley Machine Tool Project commenced in 1962 with the signing of a contract between the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Staveley Industries Limited, for the development of "a multi-purpose machine for boring, drilling, reaming and milling" (also known as a "universal milling machine"). The project was funded by a grant from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (later Ministry of Technology) and the work was carried out at the Staveley Research Department (George Richards and Company Limited) at Clapham, Bedfordshire. The project was supervised by a Project Officer based at the National Engineering Laboratory in East Kilbride, Glasgow, which also carried out tests on samples of milled material submitted to them by Staveley. The contract between Staveley and the DSIR/Mintech was determined in 1967 and the project terminated, after the performance of the completed milling machines was found to be inadequate.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6400/
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