Catalogue description Private Office Papers
Reference: | MT 62 |
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Title: | Private Office Papers |
Description: |
This series consists of papers surviving from the Private Offices of various ministers and senior officials in the Ministries of Transport, Shipping and War Transport. They include the papers of: Wilfrid Ashley, later Baron Mount Temple, as Minister of Transport, 1924 to 1929; Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport, 1941 to 1945; and as Secretary of State for Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, 1951-1953; Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport, 1945 to 1946, and Minister of Transport, 1946 to 1951; Sir Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministries of Shipping and War Transport, 1939 to 1941, and Head of the British Merchant Shipping Mission, Washington, 1941 to 1943; and Sir Cyril Hurcomb, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1927 to 1937. The series also contains minutes of meetings of the Shipping (Operation) Control, 1941 to 1946. |
Date: | 1928-1953 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 146 file(s) |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1979 Department of Transport |
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