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Series
Ministry of Technology: Electronics and Instrumentation Division and Electronics...
Catalogue reference: HF 11
What's it about?
HF 11
This series contains registered files of successive divisions of the Ministry of Technology responsible for the electronics industry and (from 1969) the computer industry. This series relates to involvement with the scientific instruments sector....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HF 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Technology: Electronics and Instrumentation Division and Electronics and Computers Division: Registered Files (LS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of successive divisions of the Ministry of Technology responsible for the electronics industry and (from 1969) the computer industry. This series relates to involvement with the scientific instruments sector. Subjects covered include the rationalisation of the nucleonic industry, and the automatic analysis of cytological smears and chromosomes.
Some files have been re-registered from an earlier LS series which used three 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)
- LS 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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- Ministry of Technology, Electronics and Computers Division, 1969-1970
- Ministry of Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Division, 1966-1967
- Ministry of Technology, Electronics, Telecommunications and Instruments Division, 1967-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- Computing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8686/
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Ministry of Technology: Electronics and Instrumentation Division and Electronics and Computers Division: Registered Files (LS Series)
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