 Many of its powers were delegated to committees such as the Executive Committee and the Retailers' Committee.In 1958, The Board bought former RAF base, RAF Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire, and set up an Agricultural experiment station, now known as Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research, the biggest centre of its kind in the UK.In 1997, under the "Potato Industry Development Council Order 1997", the name was changed to the "British Potato Council".