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Ministry of Technology and successors: Machine Tools, Manufacturing Machinery and...
Catalogue reference: FV 28
What's it about?
FV 28
Contains registered files of successive divisions of the Ministry of Technology and Department of Trade and Industry responsible for sponsorship of the machine tool industry, the manufacturing machinery industry, and (until 1969)...
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 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Technology and successors: Machine Tools, Manufacturing Machinery and Automation Division and successors: Registered Files (MT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contains registered files of successive divisions of the Ministry of Technology and Department of Trade and Industry responsible for sponsorship of the machine tool industry, the manufacturing machinery industry, and (until 1969) automation.
Subject covered include the proposed nationalisation of the machine tool industry, the stockpiling of machine tools, and the Numerical Control Advisory and Demonstration Service.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The MT file series was raised around 1967. It was preceded by an earlier MT series with three part file numbers, but many of these files were re-registered into the a MT series using two part file numbers.
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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)
- MT 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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- Department of Trade and Industry, Machine Tools and Manufacturing Machinery Division, 1970-1972
- Ministry of Technology, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Machinery and Automation Division, 1966-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 67 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 1995 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
- Manufacturing
- Trade and commerce
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Circa 1967 onwards
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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/C8513/
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Ministry of Technology and successors: Machine Tools, Manufacturing Machinery and Automation Division and successors: Registered Files (MT Series)
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