Ministry of Munitions

Eng 20, 470-477 (1919) (Description of ammonia oxidation process beginning with Kuhl-mann s method of 1839 and ending with the cyanamide process at Muscle Shoals) 7) C.L. Parsons, 1EC 11,541 (1919) (Oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid as well as the prepn of nitric acid from Chile saltpeter) 8) F.C. Zeis-berg, ChemMetEng 24, 443-45 (1921) (Manuf of nitric acid from Chilean saltpeter brief description) 9) G.B. Taylor, IEC 26,1217-19 (1922) (Some economic aspects of ammonia oxidation) 10) Ministry of Munitions, Manufacture of Nitric Acid from Nitre and Sulfuric Acid , London (1922) (Book No 7 of Technical Records of Explosives Supply, 1915—1919)... 

Q. Dr. Ilgner says that you made contact with your Sparte with the Ministry of Munitions and Armament. What about that ... 

R. J. Q. Adams, Arms and the Wizard Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions (London Cassel, 1978), p. 72. 

By contrast, the War Office was very much constrained by lack of industrial capacity. Of the 250 national factories created by the Ministry of Munitions in the First World War, only three were retained through the inter-war period, and these were held in reserve and not rehabilitated until 1936-7. Munitions production down to 1936 was shared between the three historic royal ordnance factories at Woolwich,... 

Ministry of Munitions, History of the Ministry of Munitions, 12 vols., London HMSO, 1921-2. 

When the Ministry of Munitions was established in Britain in June 1915 the production of high-explosive shells were 92 per cent in arrears. Throughout the First World War this arrears was never rectified. 

Of all the women chemists, Phyllis Violet McKie24 of the University College of Wales, Bangor, one of Orton s protegees, seems to have been the most productive during the war period. McKie was part of the team at Bangor producing paraldehyde.25 In addition, she devised a new method for the preparation of the explosive tetranitromethane for the Ministry of Munitions, and she studied methods of preparation of saccharin and vanillin for war purposes.26 Orton reported back to the War Committee ... 

Picric acid was another explosive used in the war and from 1917 to 1919, Ruth King28 was assigned as a Wartime Research Worker at Chiswick Laboratory, Department of Explosive Supply, Ministry of Munitions, to research the optimum conditions for its synthesis. 

Other aspects of the war effort involved women scientists. For example, the women science students at King s College for Women undertook research on the manufacture of optical and laboratory glass.47 This was carried out on behalf of the Glass Research Committee for the Ministry of Munitions. 

The summation of the research that has already been done on TXT poisoning mdicates that the solution of the problem consists more in prevention than in treatment. The steps to be taken in prevention, which have been suggested b the British Ministry of Munitions are ... 

W. Macnab, "Preliminary Studies for H.M. Factory, Gretna, and Study for an Installation of Phosgene Manufacture", Ministry of Munitions, Dept, of Explosive Supply, HMSO, London, 1926. 

Preliminary Studies For H. M. Factory, Gretna and Study For An Installation of Phosgene Manufacture, Ministry of Munitions, Department of Explosive Supply, London. 

Limited use was made of underground storage during the Great War, mainly by the Ministry of Munitions to secure supplies of TNT and other bulk explosives, which were being supplied quicker than the shell-filling factories could consume them. 

Ridge Quarry posed few problems, as virtually all the clearing work had been done by the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. The gross area of the usable part amounted to nine and a half acres, of which three and a half acres consisted of suppon pillars, leaving six acres for storage. 

Yet another problem has been successfully tackled by Professor Jackson for the Ministry of Munitions, viz., the treatment of day used for maiding vessels employed in glass production. 

Chris Wrigley, The Ministry of Munitions An innovatory department, in K. Burk, ed., War and the State The Transformation of British Government, 1914-18 (London, 1982), p. 33. 

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