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Association of Building Technicians (1942-1970)

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Association of Building Technicians: Architect's Professional Advisory Committee, 1946-1947

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between the head office of the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) and the Architects' Professional Advisory Committee of the ABT, which was chaired by Percy Johnson-Marshall . Schemes for conditions of service and salary scales, for the National Joint Council for Local Authorities Administrative, Professional, Technical and Clerical Services are also included.

Dates: 1946-1947

Association of Building Technicians: Architect's Sectional Committee and Technical Committee, 1946-1954

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten minute book for the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) Architect's Sectional Committee for 1946-1947.

Correspondence and reports relating to the ABT Technical Committee. The file includes a letter to Robert Joseph Gardner-Medwin from SR Gupta of Calcutta looking for a professor of architecture for the Bengal Engineering College dated 26 September 1952 .

Dates: 1946-1954

Association of Building Technicians: Education Committee and Student Liaison Committee, 1946-1954

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/3
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers concerning the Education Committee and the Student Liaison Committee of the Association of Building Technicians (ABT). Some details of pay scales for local authority employed members, and a report from the ABT Building Industry Working Party are also included.

Dates: 1946-1954

Association of Building Technicians: Executive Committee and General Council (3), 1949-1951

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/6
Scope and Contents Agenda, papers, minutes and correspondence for the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) Executive Committee, General Council and accounts . Also includes papers relating to the ABT Benevolent Funds Committee, the ABT Education Committee and a number of reports: Draft outline for ABT booklet on comprehensive schools The effect of the cuts on school buildings in London (, and a...
Dates: 1949-1951

Association of Building Technicians: mixed papers, 1950-1951

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/9
Scope and Contents Minutes of the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) Executive Committee, correspondence and notices concerning the ABT Education Committee and education policy, and a leaflet entitled The ABT and surveyors . There are also copies of 2 papers one presented at the 1956 ABT conference Housing and the city dweller: problems of planning and reconstruction (...
Dates: 1950-1951

Association of Building Technicians: Planning Committee, 1950-1951

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/8
Scope and Contents

Association of Building Technicians Planning Committee papers, minutes and correspondence. Percy Johnson-Marshall was the secretary of this committee from 1948-1950. In addition there is correspondence making comments on a variety of reports written by the Planning Committee

Dates: 1950-1951

Association of Building Technicians: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1945

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Identifier: PJM/SATO/C/4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between representatives of the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) and the Association of Building Technicians (ABT). These relate to the acquisition of books for the SATO Polytechnic courses in town planning, and efforts to gain official army recognition for SATO courses with the aid of the ABT. The file includes some pamphlets published by the ABT

Dates: 1945

Housing diagram for the ABT, 1946-1947

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/B/1
Scope and Contents This file contains a folder entitled Housing diagram for the ABT containing research for the diagram: notes, mixed correspondence and Ministry of Works forms and circulars. There is a set of minutes for the Association of Building Technicians and Association of Scientific Workers Joint Committee on Housing, dated 24 January 1947 . There is also a personal letter to Sris Chandra Chatterjee in Calcutta, dated 10 August 1947, concerning...
Dates: 1946-1947

Reports on the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 and the London Plans, 1951

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/B/10
Scope and Contents

Two draft reports by the Association of Building Technicians, both typewritten with hand written comments: Report on current planning practice under the T & CP Act, 1947 and Report on the London Plans . Also includes a manuscript plan of Glenrothes (15cm x 19cm) and some correspondence concerning the report.

Dates: 1951

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