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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., 02 Oct 1918 - 11 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/63
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A (Air) Ministry of Munitions Department of Aircraft Production Fortnightly report of the Controller of the Technical Department, Nos. 64-69.

Dates: 02 Oct 1918 - 11 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 02 Oct 1918 - 11 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/64
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A (Air) Air Ministry Secret Technical Information 1918 Nos. 1-222 [printed].

Dates: 02 Oct 1918 - 11 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 07 Sep 1917 - Sep 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/66
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A (Air) Printed reports including 27th Weekly Report of the Air Board Technical Department; Ministry of Munitions Air Group Engine Sub-Committee minutes and report; Report of Special British Aviation Mission to the United States, June-July 1918, headed by Major-General Sefton Brancker; Ministry of Munitions Department of Aircraft Production memorandum on German Aeroplane Construction.

Dates: 07 Sep 1917 - Sep 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/67
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A (Air) Tables showing estimated deliveries on Aeroplane contracts placed or provisionally settled [duplicate typescript].

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/68
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A (Air) Tables showing estimated deliveries on Aero-engine contracts placed or provisionally settled [typescript].

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/69
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A (Air) Tables showing estimated deliveries of seaplanes on contracts placed or provisionally settled [duplicate typescript].

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1917 - 31 Dec 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/70
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A (Air) Various statistics including graphs and tables of aero-engine and aircraft production and wastage.

Dates: 01 Jan 1917 - 31 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 31 Jul 1917 - 26 Oct 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/71
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A (Air) Volume of aerial photographs of The Second Army Offensive in Flanders taken by No.6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Mainly "before and after" shots of Ypres, The Menin Road, Bassevillebeek, Bitter Wood, and Gheluvelt.

Dates: 31 Jul 1917 - 26 Oct 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., Aug 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/74
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D (Design and Inventions) Papers on group terms of reference and organisation, lists of members of committees.

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/75
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D (Design and Inventions) Various papers including papers on allegations that Belsize Motors Ltd of Clayton, Manchester were producing defective gas shells; detailed report of premature detonations in high explosive shells from Jan-Apr 1918; progress report of Mechanical Traction for Field Guns Committee; the 18 inch howitzer and ammunition; and papers on very long range artillery.

Dates: Aug 1917 - Jun 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 22 Feb 1917 - Jun 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/77
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D (Design and Inventions) Munitions Inventions Department - Various papers including Interim Report of the Nitrogen Products Committee of the Advisory Panel; papers on the percussion grenade, mainly by Josiah Wedgwood and papers on automatic rifles.

Dates: 22 Feb 1917 - Jun 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 12 Nov 1917 - 09 Jan 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/78
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D (Design and Inventions) Monthly Reports of the Munitions Invention Department, with Report on a year's working of the Ministry of Munitions Journal.

Dates: 12 Nov 1917 - 09 Jan 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/79
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D (Design and Inventions) Monthly Reports of the Munitions Invention Department.

Dates: 01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 01 May 1918 - 31 Aug 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/80
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D (Design and Inventions) Monthly reports of the Munitions Invention Department [typescript, with mss annotations by WSC].

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/81
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D (Design and inventions) Monthly Reports of Munitions Invention Department [typescript].

Dates: 01 Sep 1918 - 30 Nov 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 18 Jul 1917 - 28 Jan 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/82
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D (Design and Inventions) Trench Warfare Department - Various Papers including Reports on trial of "Infantry Guns" at Montdidier by Major-General John Headlam; memorandum on the functions of the Department.

Dates: 18 Jul 1917 - 28 Jan 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 09 Nov 1917 - 30 Nov 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/83
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D (Design and Inventions) Trench Warfare Department papers, plans and photographs of the Telpher Transportation System, an aerial ropeway designed by Captain J A Leeming, Royal Engineers, to supplement exisiting transportation methods at the Front.

Dates: 09 Nov 1917 - 30 Nov 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Munitions., 30 Jul 1917 - 31 Dec 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/84
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D (Design and Inventions Trench Warfare Department papers, and plans of the Neale Aerial Warship, designed by Commander J Neale, R.N.

Dates: 30 Jul 1917 - 31 Dec 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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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