CABINET PAPERS
Complete classes from the CAB & PREM series in the Public Record Office
Series Three: CAB 128 & CAB 129 - Cabinet Conclusions & Cabinet Memoranda, 1945 and following

Part 4: The Macmillan/Home Governments, January 1957 - October 1964
(CAB 128/31-38 & CAB 129/85-118)

Technical Note

Our microform publications are prepared and produced in accordance with recommended and established guide-lines for the production of microform of superior quality. These conform to the recommendations of the standard guides to good microforming and micropublishing practice.

Attention should be drawn to the nature of the original material. The Cabinet Papers preserved in the Public Record Office classes CAB 128 and CAB 129 consist of a mixture of printed and typescript documents bound into volumes. These present a variety of problems for the filmer. Many of the volumes are tightly bound and material is slightly obscured in the inner margin. The curvature towards the spine of such volumes inevitably results in some distortion of the text. However, given the generous gutters in the centre of the documents, there is not much loss of text. Many of the typescript documents were multiple copies printed onto poor quality paper with the results that the originals are poor and some of the text is very faint or variably inked. There are also the standard problems of show-through associated with printed sources. Every effort has been made to minimise these difficulties and some openings are microfilmed more than once in an attempt to bring out all the features of the original. Nevertheless these original characteristics present difficulties of image and contrast which stringent tests and variations of density cannot entirely overcome.

The most responsible care has been exercised in the filming of this unique collection and every effort has been made to ensure that this microform publication meets the standards established by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and prevailing European standards.

Filmed by the Reprographics Department of the Public Record Office, Kew, London , England.

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