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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Highways General (HG Series) Files

    This series of registered files deal with the acquisition and management of land required for trunk roads, with the confirmation of orders made by local authorities for compulsory purchase for road purposes, with policy relating to ferries connecting…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1946-1977
    Reference
    MT 127
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Freight Coordination (FC Series) Files

    Records of the Freight Coordination Division and Freight Policy and Road Haulage Division concerning general policy relating to the coordination of freight transport and the integration of freight services into the public sector. Some of the records …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1957-1984
    Reference
    MT 157
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Transport and successors, Highways Traffic and Safety Division

    This series includes registered files relating to road traffic legislation, accidents and driving tests. There are also papers of the Committee on Road Safety.The H(TS) series started in 1949 but the present series covers in the main the period betwe…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1937-1956
    Reference
    MT 108
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Transport: Registered Files

    This series consists of files of the Road Transport Division relating to freight transport and public service (passenger) transport. Subjects include the regulation and licensing of public service vehicles and staff and of road haulage undertakings o…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1927-1980
    Reference
    MT 97
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Holyhead and Shrewsbury Roads

    This series consists of reports of the committees and select committees appointed to enquire into the roads from London to Holyhead; reports by Thomas Telford and others on these roads; and reports, financial accounts, journals of work carried out, l…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1772-1951
    Reference
    MT 27
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Road and Rail Appeal Tribunal: Road Haulage Appeals

    This series consist of consists of specimen case files of the Road and Rail Appeal Tribunal set up under the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933 to consider objections to decisions of the licensing authorities concerning the grant of licences for the carr…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1933-1993
    Reference
    MT 69
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Aviation and Telecommunications...

    This series contains the records of the departments of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office, and their successors, which dealt with questions relating to international communications.Subjects covered include civil aviation (airlines and air…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1967-1973
    Reference
    FCO 14
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Hackney Coach Board and predecessor: Hackney Carriage and Hawkers and Pedlars' Licence...

    Minutes from 1796-1801 and 1807-1812 and Treasury letter books of the Hackney Coach Commissioners together with letter books of the Board of Stamps and the Board of Stamps and Taxes concerning hackney carriage and hawkers and pedlars' licences. There…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1796-1860
    Reference
    IR 51
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Transport: London Traffic (LT Series) Files

    This series consists of files relating to all aspects of the control of London traffic, including speed limits, waiting restrictions, one-way systems, weight restrictions, pedestrian crossings, parking, road signs and traffic signals.There are also f…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1934-1968
    Reference
    MT 129
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Public Transport A (PTA Series) Files

    This series contains files of the Public Transport A Division and its successor the Public Transport Industry and Investment Division of the Ministry of Transport and the Department of the Environment.The files relate to road passenger transport poli…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1962-1979
    Reference
    MT 147
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Highways Special Roads (HS Series) Files

    This series consists of the registered files of the Highways Special Roads Division of the Ministry of Transport and its successors. The files concern policy on legislation, the conservation and operation of trunk roads and motorways. Many relate to …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1942-1978
    Reference
    MT 121
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the National Bus Company

    Records of the National Bus Company, established in 1968 to carry passengers by road and linked seaborne transport, to co-ordinate transport services with other transport boards and to operate as a travel agency.The records have been split into those…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1923-1991
    Reference
    FH
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Welsh Office: Roads Division and successors: Bridges Engineering (BE) prefix: Registered...

    This specific file series covers bridge construction within the overall design, construction and maintenance of the motorway, trunk and principal road programme for Wales.

    Held by
    Date
    1974-1980
    Reference
    BD 131
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)

    Registered files of the Roads Administartion Division concerning: pre-construction programming of road schemes; budgetary control; contracts and agreements; highways orders; land acquisition and management; planning blight and compensation; administr…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1970-1989
    Reference
    BD 112
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Highways Planning and Construction (HPC Series) Files

    This series contains registered files of the Department of Transport Highways Planning and Construction Division (HPC series). The file series details the planning and selection of trunk road schemes. Files that exist prior to 1977 are papers that or…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1976-1981
    Reference
    MT 194
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Greater London Transport (GLT Series) Files

    This series contains registered files of the Greater London Transport Division which was responsible for monitoring road schemes including examination of traffic implications of major re-development proposals in London, and the use of the Minister's …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1976-1989
    Reference
    MT 198
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Assessment, Policy and Methods (APM series) Files

    These records detail highways investment appraisal; traffic, economic and environmental appraisal of trunk road schemes and economic advice on the overall road programme.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1975-1996
    Reference
    MT 192
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Vehicle Engineering Development Unit (VEDU Series) Files

    Minutes and papers of the inter-departmental Working Group on Fuel Consumption Targets (Departments of Transport, Industry, and Energy, Transport and Road Research Laboratory, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders).

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1980-1988
    Reference
    MT 207
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Highway Procedures and Legislation (HPL Series) Files

    These records detail policy on land acquisition and disposal; land compensation; trunk road statutory procedures (including Public Inquiries); public consultation; planning blight; agreement on bridges, tunnels mining etc; highways legislation and pr…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1973-1981
    Reference
    MT 199
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Road Transport (RF Series) Files

    The records contain files demonstrating precedent on European Community road haulage policy, bilateral agreements, permits and quotas and files on goods vehicle operators' licensing and enforcement (tachographs, drivers hours and record rules).Some R…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1964-2007
    Reference
    MT 174

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