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Reference: MT 62
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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