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Military equipment

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1412 Collections and/or Records:

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Official: Munitions., Jun 1917 - Nov 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/85
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E (Engineering) Mechanical warfare - various papers on tanks, including programme for demonstration of experimental tanks; letter from Lord Robert Cecil [later Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on the problems of the Tank Corps in France.

Dates: Jun 1917 - Nov 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Sep 1917 - 31 May 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/86A-B
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - various papers, mainly on tanks including memo by Sir Tennyson d'Eyncourt; Intelligence reports on German tanks; papers on tank production; papers of Munitions Council Committee on Tanks, Sep 1917.

Dates: Sep 1917 - 31 May 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jun 1918 - 30 Nov 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/87
Scope and Contents E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - Various papers, mainly on tanks, including correspondence with F Dudley Docker, Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and others on tank production; papers on proposed re-organization of the Tank Corps to bring it more into the Army; papers on steel production; minutes of meeting of Munitions Council Committee on the production of tanks; correspondence with Jack Seely [later Lord Mottistone], Deputy Minister of Munitions; note on condition of...
Dates: 01 Jun 1918 - 30 Nov 1918
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Official: Munitions., 29 May 1917 - 30 Sep 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/88
Scope and Contents E (Engineering) Papers on Mechanical Warfare Organisation including correspondence between Christopher Addison, Ministry of Munitions and Lord Derby, War Office, on memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel A G Stern, Director General Mechanical Warfare Supply Department on the organisation of sections of Government departments dealing with tanks, and the tactical use of tanks in warfare; papers on the responsibility for the inspection of tanks; and on the organisation and responsibilities of the...
Dates: 29 May 1917 - 30 Sep 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 28 Feb 1918 - 29 Jun 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/89
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - weekly reports on Tank production and progress and deliveries from contractors.

Dates: 28 Feb 1918 - 29 Jun 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 06 Jul 1918 - 02 Nov 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/90
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare Department - weekly reports on Tank production, and progress and deliveries from contractors.

Dates: 06 Jul 1918 - 02 Nov 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 21 Aug 1918 - 31 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/91
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E (Engineering) Minutes of the Tank Board, chaired by Jack Seely (later Lord Mottistone), Deputy Minister of Munitions. Other board members included Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Controller General of Tank Design ; Colonel Sir Albert Stern, Controller-General of Tank Production; Major-General Sir William Furse; Lt-Col. J F C Fuller; Sir Percival Perry, Controller of Supply; Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.

Dates: 21 Aug 1918 - 31 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 17 Sep 1918 - 31 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/92
Scope and Contents E (Engineering) Tank Board -addenda to minutes including minute by WSC on Tank production; report by the Mechanical Warfare Department on the relation between man-power and tank production; Report by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon on Zirconium Steel; minutes of Sub-Committee on Spares; report on trial of new Ford tank; report by James Maclean [Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department] on Ricardo Engine production; report by Sir Albert Stern on Liberty Engines; report by Sir Ernest Swinton...
Dates: 17 Sep 1918 - 31 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - 30 Sep 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/94
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E (Engineering) Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department - papers on the Anglo-American Tank Agreement and erection of Factory at Chateauroux, France.

Dates: Oct 1917 - 30 Sep 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Jan 1916 - Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/98
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F (Finance) Various papers including Treasury Minute on the relations between the Treasury and the Ministry of Munitions; note by Owen Smith on the effect of the Finance Bill on establishments controlled by the Ministry of Munitions; Treasury minute on Admiralty and War Office contracts for munitions of war, small arms and ammunition; papers, mainly by Owen Smith on the Munitions Levy; WSC's evidence to the Select Committee on National Expenditure - Ministry of Munitions Sub-Committee.

Dates: Jan 1916 - Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 07 Oct 1918 - 27 Nov 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/100
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F (Finance) Ministry of Munitions Finance Committee - minutes The Committee was chaired by Sir Gilbert Garnsey (Controller of Munitions Accounts) , other members included Sir W Graham Greene, Sir Philip Henriques, Sigmund Dannreuther and Sir John Mann.

Dates: 07 Oct 1918 - 27 Nov 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Mar 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/101
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F (Finance) Report by the Controller of Factory Audit and Costs on the Audit of the Accounts of National Factories, Mines and Quarries for the year ending 31 Mar 1918, with balance sheets and relative production statements.

Dates: Mar 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Aug 1917 - Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/102
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G (Guns) Various papers including notes on production of guns and spare parts; letter from Major-General Sir Noel Birch on provision of scissors trail for 18-pdr gun; notes on trials of field artillery equipment; copy of G.H.Q. statement on artillery and reply of the Ordnance Committee.

Dates: Aug 1917 - Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Jul 1917 - Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/103
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G (Guns) Various papers on machine guns including papers by Walter Layton and others on machine gun production; tables of output and requirements for Vickers Machine Guns, correspondence with Sir James Stevenson on the possible production of Vickers Machine Guns in the United States; minutes of conference of Farquhar Hill and Light Browning Automatic Rifles (chaired by WSC); minute by WSC on the Light Lewis Gun, and suggestions for improving it.

Dates: Jul 1917 - Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Apr 1918 - Jun 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/104
Scope and Contents G (Guns) Papers on the Danish "Madsen Machine Gun" including papers on the proposed production of the gun by Rolls Royce Ltd at Derby; memo by Walter Layton comparing the Madsen with the Lewis Machine Gun; memo from WSC to the Master General of the Ordnance, Major-General Sir William Furse on reasons why the Army Council did not want the Madsen gun; correspondence with Lord Northcliffe and Cecil Harmsworth on his reasons for not making any further efforts to acquire the gun; copy of official...
Dates: Apr 1918 - Jun 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Jul 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/105
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G (Guns) Report on visit to the French Artillery in Champagne by Major-General John Headlam, with covering letter to WSC.

Dates: Jul 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Mar 1917 - 31 Dec 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/106
Scope and Contents L (Labour) Various papers including voluntary registration of men between the ages of 18 and 61 under the National Service Scheme; papers on coal strike at Ebbw Vale, South Wales; correspondence with Sir Stephenson Kent, particularly on the recruitment of munitions workers for the Army; minutes of meeting of the Psychological Committee on causes of national unrest; papers on agreement between the Minister of Munitions and the Executive Council of the Cumberland Iron-Ore Miners and Kindred...
Dates: Mar 1917 - 31 Dec 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., [Dec] 1917 - Feb 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/111
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L (Labour) Papers on payment of 12.5% bonus to skilled munitions and shipbuilding workers on time rather than piece rates, with list of impending and existing strikes.

Dates: [Dec] 1917 - Feb 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Oct 1917 - Feb. 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/112
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L (Labour) War Cabinet papers on payment of 12.5% bonus to skilled workers on time rates in the munitions and shipbuilding industries.

Dates: Oct 1917 - Feb. 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Mar 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/113
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L (Labour) Correspondence with George Barnes, Minister without Portfolio, on payment of 12.5% bonus to skilled workers on time rates in the munitions and shipbuilding industries.

Dates: Mar 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Jan 1918 - Apr 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/115
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L (Labour) Papers on discharge of munitions workers owing to reduction in the munitions programme, including notes on demand for women's labour in non-munitions industries, and list of discharges of women from munitions work; magazine "The Labour Woman, a monthly paper for Working Women".

Dates: Jan 1918 - Apr 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Mar 1918 - Apr 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/116
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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on WSC's appeal to munitions factories to work through the Easter holidays to replace serious losses guns, machine guns and ammunition resulting from the German Offensive in France. Including handwritten draft of WSC's message, and letters and telegrams from individual factories, and handwritten draft of WSC's message of congratulation to the Ponders End Munitions Factory.

Dates: Mar 1918 - Apr 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Jun 1918 - Jul 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/117
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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on embargo on recruitment of skilled workers for munitions work.

Dates: Jun 1918 - Jul 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., [Jan] 1918 - Jul 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/118
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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on strikes in the aircraft manufacturing industry, including: note on the sheet metal workers' strike; ; memo by Sir William Weir on position created by strike of aircraft sheet metal workers in the London area; memo on strike at the Waring and Gillow factory in Hammersmith, caused by the dismissal of a female Shop Steward in the Varnish Room: papers on strike at Alliance Aircraft Company works.

Dates: [Jan] 1918 - Jul 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Mar 1917 - Sep 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/119
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M (Materials) Various papers including: papers on the organisation of the Materials Department by Lionel Phillips and Sir Leonard Llewellyn; papers on the Railway Strike, Sep 1918, including Board of Trade Bulletins on the progress of the strike and memorandum on "Railwaymen's Unrest" by A H Stanley (later Lord Ashfield), President of the Board of Trade;.

Dates: Mar 1917 - Sep 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open