Scope and Contents M (Materials) Papers on overseas transport including: memorandum "Proposal to Secure Absolutely the National Safety by Concentrating Shipping in the Atlantic by Sir Leo Chiozza Money; letter from Robert Burton-Chadwick to Christopher Addison (Minister of Munitions) on his appointment as the Minister's adviser on shipping matters; statements and tables showing import of munitions, Apr-Dec 1917; memorandum by Sir Joseph Maclay, Ministry of Shipping, on the position of merchant shipbuilding;...

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M (Materials) Papers on overseas transport including: statements of munitions requirements and estimates of shipments from overseas , July-Aug 1918; Allied Maritime Transport Council - General Report, Mar-Sep 1918, Executive Report Aug-Sep 1918.

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M (Materials) Papers on railways including: memorandum by the Railway Executive Committee on shortage of materials for repairs and renewals of track, locomotives and rolling stock; minutes of conference on the pooling of wagons, chaired by WSC, other delegates included Sir Albert Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, Sir Ernest Moir, Sir William Marwood and Sir Herbert Walker.

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P (Projectiles) Various papers on ammunition including translations of extracts from captured German documents; memorandum on Gun ammunition for 1918; minute by WSC on conference at Artillery Office, GHQ on false-nosed shells; note on French research on streamlined shells.

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P (Projectiles) Papers on the reduction in the ammunition programme and the release of steel for shipbuilding.

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P (Projectiles) Papers on area organisation, and minutes of the Shell and Components Manufacture Executive Committee, chaired by Sir Glynn West. Including tables of cost results from National Factories.

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P (Projectiles) Gun Ammunition Filling Department Papers including reports on the shell filling progamme; report on explosion in filling factory at Morecambe, Lancashire.

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P (Projectiles) Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.

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P (Projectiles) Appendix to Report of Mission to France appointed by the Controller of Gun Ammunition Filling, investigating the French methods of manufacturing and filling fuses, gaines, delays detonators, the manufacture of fulminate and minor explosives, and the preparation of time powders, led by Lt-Col. H G Fitzhay.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Various papers including report of statistical conference on returns required by the Ministry; table of tonnage of stock of munitions materials, Dec 1917; printed Quarterly Review of the Munitions Programme, June 1918.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Reports on Imports and Production of Munitions.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on the guns and ammunition programme for 1918, including memorandum on the War Office requirements; memorandum on the Artillery Position on the Western front for the French and British Armies, Apr-Aug 1917; comparison of Allied and German Artillery.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Papers on Guns and Ammunition including copy of the Gun Ammunition Programme for 1918; letter from William Page to the War Office on the effect of strikes on gun output; report on state of wear of guns in the field; tables of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France; memorandum by William Page on efforts to achieve greater efficiency with Artillery.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics - weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of gun ammunition in France.

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R (Requirements and Statistics) Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics weekly reports of expenditure and stocks of guns and ammunition in France.

Scope and Contents S (Steel and Iron) Various papers including report on the shipbuilding situation by the Controller's Department, Admiralty; memorandum on the possibilities of merchant ship production in the United Kingdom by Major General Albert Collard, Deputy Controller of Auxiliary Shipbuilding; minute on labour unrest in the iron and steel industry; papers by John Hunter, Director of Steel Production on manganese ore, and steel output; Joint recommendations on increase of production of ships' plates and...

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S (Steel and Iron) Various papers including correspondence on demand for steel from France, Italy and Russia; memo by Robert Horne, Director of Materials and Priority on meeting with WSC on supply of steel to the Admiralty; memo by Sir Arthur Duckham on steel production; minute from WSC to Sir Arthur Duckham expressing disquiet about the Steel Department and its organisation; papers on strike by iron ore miners in Cumberland.

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S (Steel and Iron) Various papers including memo from the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Eric Geddes) to the War Cabinet on merchant shipbuilding; minute from Sir John Hunter, Director of Steel Production, stating that there was no steel available for Admiralty programme of three airship sheds, except at the expense of other munitions production; papers on supply of steel to Italy; papers on the steel budget for 1919.

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S (Steel and Iron) Various papers on the organisation and function of the Steel and Iron Department of the Ministry of Munitions.

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S (Steel and Iron) Papers on the manufacturing programme by Sir John Hunter and others.

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S (Steel and Iron) Output statistics - figures for steel production.

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X (Explosives Supply Department) Various papers including notes on the establishment and organisation of the Department; report on explosion in nitro-glycerine wash house at munitions factory in Pembrey; papers on alcohol supplies for war purposes; notes on the manufacture of suphuric acid by K B Quinan [printed].

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X (Explosives Supply Department) Report on costs and efficiencies for H.M. Factories controlled by the Factories Branch, Department of Explosives Supply [printed].

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X (Explosives Supply Department) Papers on the establishment of a factory for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by Sir Keith Price, K B Quinan, Edwin Montagu and others.

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Chemical Warfare Department Various papers including letter from Major-General Henry Thuillier, Chemical Warfare Department on the Italian gas mask, which gave practically no protection against the three principal gasses used by the enemy; report of conference on general gas policy, chaired by WSC.