Surplus used microfilms offered for disposal

Surplus used microfilms offered for disposal

Following the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archives is offering the following batch of redundant microfilms, free, on a first-come,first-served basis:

Catalogue reference: WO 398
Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Records, First World War 1917-1920

This comprises approximately 240 reels of used 35mm diazo negative image microfilm on 30 metre reels (not all reels will be full).

Only requests for the whole batch will be accepted. The National Archives is not seeking payment for these films.

The films are currently held at The National Archives site at Kew, and the successful requester must remove the films from Kew, at their own cost, by 20 October 2006.

The films are offered on an ´as seen´ basis, and no warranty or guarantee is offered as to their quality or completeness.

Any copyright restrictions on the films or their content will remain after disposal.

For further information, or to make a request for these films, please contact James Lawson at james.lawson@nationalarchives.gov.uk or telephone +44 (0)20 8392 5330 ext 2310.

This offer opens on 23 August at 10:00 UK time. Requests will not be accepted before this date.

This offer closes on 2 October 2006.