Série GB 0813 POST 82 Series - Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)

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GB 0813 POST 82 Series 1837-1939 Series 304 files

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The Postmaster General took over the private telegraph companies under the Telegraph Acts of 1868 and 1869, which authorised the Postmaster General to purchase, work and maintain telegraphs in the United Kingdom.

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This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighthouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specifications of inventions.

The Letters Patent are listed alphabetically, under the name of the inventor.

Public Record

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English

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For reference to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81.

Entry checked by Barbara Ball

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.

Entry checked June 2011 Telecommunications Law Telegraph Act 1869 c73 Legislation Communications legislation Telegraph Act 1868 c110 Telex Telecommunications equipment

Please contact the Archive for further information.

This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighthouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specifications of inventions.

The Letters Patent are listed alphabetically, under the name of the inventor.

Public Record

Please contact the Archive for further information.

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English

For reference to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

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.

• anglais