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The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade. [1] Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, but is commonly known as the Board of Trade, and formerly known as the Lords of Trade and ...
Sea Transport Branch (Board of Trade) Standards Department; U. Board of Trade unit This page was last edited on 12 June 2023, at 20:56 (UTC). Text ...
This act created a special department of the Board of Trade, called the Standard Weights and Measures Department, and a head of that department styled the Warden of the Standards. His duty was to conduct comparisons, verifications and operations with reference to the standards in aid of scientific research and otherwise.
He was appointed the Board of Trade's first Commissioner for Labour in 1893, where his work on statistics led to the Board of Trade Act 1909. Smith was also active in the improvement of industrial relations and in 1895 he helped to settle the strike in the shoe-making industry. [1] He was permanent secretary to the Board of Trade from 1907 to 1919.
Examples of the standard reverse designs minted until 2008. Designed by Christopher Ironside (£2 coin is not shown).. The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories is denominated in pennies and pounds sterling (symbol "£", commercial GBP), and ranges in value from one penny sterling to two pounds.
Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen, a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States; Chicago Board of Trade, the world's oldest futures and options exchange; Chicago Board of Trade Building, a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois; Chicago Board of Trade Independent Battery Light Artillery, an artillery battery that served in the ...
The two were united on 16 September 1672 as the Board of Trade and Plantations. After the Board was re-established in 1696, there were 15 (and later 16) members of the Board – the 7 (later 8) great officers of state, and eight unofficial members, who did the majority of the work. The senior unofficial board member was the board president ...
S. George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville; Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn; James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury; Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys