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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on embargo on recruitment of skilled workers for munitions work.

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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.

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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;.

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.