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Division
Records of the Department's Central Organisation
Catalogue reference: Division within DSIR
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Division within DSIR
Records of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's central organisation relating to its central functions of organising, developing and encouraging scientific and industrial research and also of its internal functions. Comprises:...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within DSIR
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Department's Central Organisation
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1915-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's central organisation relating to its central functions of organising, developing and encouraging scientific and industrial research and also of its internal functions.
Comprises:
- General files, DSIR 17 and DSIR 75
- Annual reports, DSIR 53
- Headquarters files relating to fire research, DSIR 71
- Headquarters files relating to the Hydraulics Research Board, DSIR 39
- Headquarters files relating to Torry Research Station, DSIR 40
- Industry Division, DSIR 52
- Intelligence Division, DSIR 45
- Information Division, DSIR 49
- Stations Division (Road Research Laboratory files), DSIR 70
- Research Boards and Committees, 1916-1939 reports, DSIR 43
- Returns giving details of research units and laboratories in 1939, DSIR 44
- Committee on Research Contracts with Universities, DSIR 41
- Establishment files, DSIR 18
- Civilian personal files, DSIR 47
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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 Scientific and Industrial Research, 1916-1965
- Ministry of Technology, 1964-1970
- Privy Council, Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1915-1916
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 16 series
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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
- Road Transport
- 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 Headquarters Office of the department served the Advisory Council, and later the Research Council, and their committees. It gave effect to their decisions and conducted almost all the department's business other than scientific work and associated executive work falling to directors of research. When fully developed it was organised in six divisions, grouped in pairs under three directors: Establishment and Finance Divisions; Stations and Industry Divisions; and Grants and Information Divisions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C859/
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