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Catalogue description Air Ministry, Directorate General of Works and Buildings and successors: Branch Folders
| Reference: | WORK 53 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Air Ministry, Directorate General of Works and Buildings and successors: Branch Folders |
| Description: |
Most pieces in this series are concerned with experiments on paved runways and with the construction of runways at selected RAF stations and airfields in the United Kingdom and abroad. The first of these runways (also called all-weather runways and airfield pavements) was built in the late 1930s as a result of the introduction of heavier aircraft. By 1942 virtually every airfield built for the RAF in Britain had paved runways. |
| Date: | 1946-1967 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Air Ministry, Directorate of Works, 1937-1963 Air Ministry, Directorate of Works and Buildings, 1918-1937 Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967 |
| Physical description: | 43 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1983 Department of the Environment |
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