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Actions	Notes and handbooks relating to wireless and telegraphy training Remove from selection Add to selection TitleNotes and handbooks relating to wireless and telegraphy training ReferenceYA1996.2636 CreatorAir Ministry The Air Ministry was created to oversee the formation of the Royal Air Force an amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. As well as overseeing and managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force it also issued specifications for aircraft to aircraft companies. The prototype aircraft would be tested by the Ministry who would then assigned it with a name. War Office Created and initially known as the War Department from 8 February 1855, this British government department became known as the War Office from 1857, absorbing the various other bodies formerly responsible for Army affairs. On 1 April 1964, it was absorbed into the unified Ministry of Defence. Date c1917-1943 Scope and ContentA collection of notes and handbooks relating to wireless and telegraphy training carried out at HMS Victory VI training establishment based at Crystal Palace, London. The collection also includes notes relating to an apprenticeship in Aero Engineering undertaken by Mr Beattie in 1921, and a copy of the Pilot's Notes for the Anson I aircraft, with a dried maple leaf enclosed, 1948. Extent0.04 linear metres Physical descriptionFair LanguageEnglish Archival historyArchive donated by J S Bolland, provenance unknown Levelfonds Repository nameScience and Industry Museum Associated people and organisationsBolland, R S R S Bolland attended the Naval Wireless School, Victory VI W/T based at the Royal Naval Depot Crystal Palace between 1917 and 1918. SubjectAviation, Engineering, Electric engineering, Radio Conditions governing accessOpen access. Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions. Related object Collection of Post Office Telegram and Telephone Papers Photographs of the Avro Anson Aircraft

TitleNotes and handbooks relating to wireless and telegraphy training

ReferenceYA1996.2636

Date

c1917-1943

Scope and ContentA collection of notes and handbooks relating to wireless and telegraphy training carried out at HMS Victory VI training establishment based at Crystal Palace, London.

The collection also includes notes relating to an apprenticeship in Aero Engineering undertaken by Mr Beattie in 1921, and a copy of the Pilot's Notes for the Anson I aircraft, with a dried maple leaf enclosed, 1948.

Extent0.04 linear metres

Physical descriptionFair

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyArchive donated by J S Bolland, provenance unknown

Levelfonds

Repository nameScience and Industry Museum

Associated people and organisationsBolland, R S

SubjectAviation, Engineering, Electric engineering, Radio

Conditions governing accessOpen access.

Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.

Related object

Collection of Post Office Telegram and Telephone Papers

Photographs of the Avro Anson Aircraft