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IEE papers relating to its involvement with the Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC) and the Commonwealth Engineering Conference. The Commonwealth Engineering Conference changed its name to the Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC) at its June 1975 meeting held in Nigeria (see minute 2 of its 1st plenary session held 17 June 1975). The Commonwealth Engineering Conference came into being through the initiative of the Councils of the 3 British engineering institutions; the Institution of Civil Engineers; the Insitution of Mechanical Engineers; and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. These 3 institutions in 1946 adopted a suggestion, first made by ICE, to invite the Presidents and Secretaries of sister engineering institutions in the British Commonwealth to attend a meeting in London later that year. A paper within these files, dated 1979 states that the CEI was the UK member of the CEC (and provided the Secretariat) but that for historic reasons the IEE/IMechE/ICE and IChemE were Associate members [the demise of the CEI came shortly thereafter post Finniston Report]. A later paper, dated November 1987, which gives the complete CEC structure in 1987, shows IEE/ICE/IMechE and IChemE as the 4 members of the CEC Executive Council with the ICE providing the Secretariat. See also CEC papers in the IEE Secretary series, particularly IET/DEP/1/3/456-458, IET/DEP/1/3/460, and IET/DEP/1/3/474-476.