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THE Report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for the year 1927–28 (Cmd. 3258) devotes considerable attention to the position, in the national economy, of the research associations set up in Great Britain under the segis of the Department. Since 1918, when the first three associations were established, some twenty-six research associations in all have been formed. Two of them, relating to the glass and cement industries respectively, have been wound up, and of the twenty-four associations still in being, one, the British Iron Manufacturers' Research Association, has not received grant aid from the Department, and its operations were suspended at the close of the first quinquennium and have not, up to the present, been resumed. The British Colliery Owners' Research Association, founded in December 1924, has not received grant aid from the Department, and three other associations (Motor and Allied Manufacturers, Motor Cycle and Cycle Car, and Scottish Shale Oil) ceased to receive Government grants at the end of their first quinquennium.
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The Research Associations. Nature 123, 749–751 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123749a0
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