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Series
Control Commission for Germany: Bipartite Control Office, Transport Group: Records
Catalogue reference: FO 1026
What's it about?
FO 1026
This series contains records both of the Control Commission for Germany (British Element) Transport Division and of the Bipartite (i.e. Anglo-American) Transport Group which took over from it. It deals both with overall policy including...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1026
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Title (The name of the record)
- Control Commission for Germany: Bipartite Control Office, Transport Group: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1950
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records both of the Control Commission for Germany (British Element) Transport Division and of the Bipartite (i.e. Anglo-American) Transport Group which took over from it. It deals both with overall policy including international transport and with particular cases. It includes papers on the Berlin air lift, 1948-49 and on the European Recovery Programme (Marshall Aid).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged mainly according to types of transport: highways, inland water transport, maritime ports and shipping, and railways.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Control Commission for Germany, Bipartite Control Office, Transport Group, 1946-1948
- Control Office for Germany and Austria, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Transport Division, 1945-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 182 file(s)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8325/
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