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Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Rolling Stock


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 2856 (NEW)LT000482

Held at: Transport for London (TfL) Corporate Archives

Title: Lord Ashfield: Reports and Memoranda on Rolling Stock

Date(s): 1931-1947

Level of description: Series

Extent: 44 units

Name of creator(s): Stanley | Albert Henry | 1874-1948 | 1st Baron Ashfield | MP and President of the Board of Trade

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series contains tests, drawings and photographs of railway rolling stock, including details of the surface lines of rolling stock replacement programmes, a proposed rolling stock programme for the District, Circle and Metropolitan Lines, Chairman's conference minutes including financial details, National Service for staff, matters approved by the Chairman for submission to the Board, Special Expenditure Requisitions (SERs), air raid precautions, engineering first class traffic, the standardisation of signs, a station proficiency competition and emergency measures on railways.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry edited from an Archives Hub description and published March 2014.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2014


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air raid precautions | Civil defence | Defence | State security
Trains | Vehicles | Transport
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Civil defence x Defence
Transport infrastructure

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe