Moulton, Lord

Before the war, the manufacture of TNT was restricted to two private companies, the Clayton Aniline Company and Nobel s, the latter having a capacity of just ten tons per week. In comparison with other areas of munitions supply (especially shells, whose manufacture was often organized by locally self-appointed committees) the supply of high explosives was in November 1914 put into the hands of a newly-appointed Committee on High Explosives, under the chairmanship of the lawyer. Lord (Hetcher) Moulton, FRS. 

Hampshire County Record Office (Winchester), 109M91/RM9, Memo on HE by Lord Moulton , 16 June 1915. 

See George Dewar, The Grech Munition Feat, 1914-1918 (London Constable Company, Ltd, 1921) Lord Moulton, Science and War The Rede Lecture, 1919 (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1919). 

Macnab (1858-1941), the most celebrated authority on explosives in Britain before the war, joined Lord Moulton s Committee on Explosives in 1914 and from 1915 to 1918 served as Technical Adviser to the Department of Explosives Supply, Ministry of Munitions. See Journal and Proceedings of the Institute of Chemistry (1941), Part V, 285-186 Who Was Who, Vol. IV (1941-1950), (London A C Black, 1964), 743. 

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