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Department of Trade and Industry and predecessors: Telecommunications and Post Division...
Catalogue reference: FV 4
What's it about?
FV 4
This series contains the files of the Telecommunications Division of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and, through re-registration, files inherited from the External Telecommunications Executive of the Post Office. The files relate...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FV 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Trade and Industry and predecessors: Telecommunications and Post Division and predecessors: Registered Files (OSB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the files of the Telecommunications Division of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and, through re-registration, files inherited from the External Telecommunications Executive of the Post Office. The files relate mainly to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference of 1965 to 1966.
The OSB series was first raised by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Early files in this series were inherited from the External Telecommunications Executive of the GPO and re-registered into the OSB series.
Further files were added to the series by the Telecommunications Division of the Ministry, and subsequently by its successors, the Department of Industry and the Department of Trade and Industry. The files that the Department of Industry raised in this series were for the use of its Posts and Telecommunications Division. In 1983, when the Department of Trade and Industry was set up, the series continued in its Telecommunications Division.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications files in BT 229 HO 255 HO 256 HO 257 HO 258
The Post Office's External Telecommunications Executive continued to raise files until 1979 at the least, though not in the OSB prefix. These files are held by the BT Archives and can be seen in POST TCB TCC TCD TCK
For other GPO files inherited by the Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessors, including files relating to Commonwealth telecommunications affairs. For files inherited by the Home Office from the GPO and its successor, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, see: Further telecommunications records are in:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- OSB file series
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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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- General Post Office, 1660-1969
- Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, 1969-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 128 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1993 Department of Trade and Industry
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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
- Trade and commerce
- Communications
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8489/
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