Waltham Abbey

Proceedings of the International Conference on Kesearch in Primay Explosives, Explosives Kesearch, and Development Establishment, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK, 1975. 

R. Stenson, Tactors Governing the Storage Tfe of Solid Propellant Pocket Motors, report no. TN047, Explosive Research and Development Establishment, Waltham Abbey, UK, 1972. 

A modern version of the oven heating method is the Mytron FAB-1 moisture tester, in use at Waltham Abbey, Sussex, Engl, for detg moisture... 

Synthesis and Characterisation of Hydroxy-Terminated Polybutadienes , Report No 6/R/66, ERDE, Waltham Abbey, Essex (Engl) (1967)... 

Plastic Propellant The Tensile Properties of the Polyisobutene Binder , ERDE Tech Memo No 15/M/64, Waltham Abbey (Engl) (1964)... 

T.P. Hobin, "The Binder/Oxidant Interface in Plastic Propellant , Rept No ERDE-TR-10, TRC BR-18126, Waltham Abbey (Engl)... 

Eds, Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Primary Explosives, Vols 1—3, Explosives Research and Development Establishment (ERDE), Waltham Abbey, Essex, England (17-19 March 1975), AD B013 627, AD B013 628 AD BOB 629 156) Anon,... 

Guncotton was made at Faversham in 1847, but manufacture ceased after a serious explosion. It was nearly twenty years before manufacture was recommenced, privately at Stowmarket and also at Waltham Abbey. The initial uses were military. 

Silvered Vessel (or Waltham Abbey Silvered Vessel) Test. See Vol 1, p XXIV... 

Waltham Abbey Silvered Vessel Test. See Silvered Vessel Test in Vol 1, jp XXIV... 

Frederick Abel, the chemist of English War Dept, started experiments and manuf on a small scale of GC in the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey and succeeded in obtaining by 1865 more stable product than that of von Lenk (Ref 11, p 40) (See also below under 1865)... 

Abel s Researches on Guncotton demonstrated that the material after proper purification is far more stable than thought to be. Moisture or exposure to sunlight did not harm it, and only exposure to elevated temp slowly decompd it. Abel found that in NC produced at Waltham Abbey by nitration with 18 parts of mixed acid, there was ca 1.62% soluble in eth-alc. He detd its N content as 11.87%, while insol NC contd N=13.83%. He ealed that the highest nitrated substance must contain 14.14% N, as was previously suggested by Crum (Ref 31a, pp 255—56)... 

Brown or Cocoa prismatic powder was made by the Germans, and in spite of attempts to keep the method of manuf secret, it was being made in England at Waltham Abbey two years later (kef 11, pp 29-30) (See also Vol 2 of Encycl, p B173-L)... 

Accdg to Gorst (Ref 71, p 12), Russia started to use Trotil (TNT) for loading shells 1909. Silvered Vessel Test, devised by Sir Robertson for detn of stability of Cordite, was described by F.L. Nathan in JSocChemlnd 28, 443 (1909), and briefly described by Reilly (Ref 28a, p 81) and in Vol 1 of Encycl, p XXIV. It is also known as Waltham Abbey Test ... 

Cordite SC, Solventless was developed at Waltham Abbey, England (Vol 3 of Encycl, p C532-R)... 

Propellants, Explosives, and Rocket Motor Establishment, Ministry of Defense, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 IBP, U.K. 

In this Instance, however, excess amine may have to be employed to minimize the possibility of disubstltutlon by the living polymer. Collaborative work In this area Is currently being carried out at Waltham Abbey and the University of Montellleril and therefore, the results quoted here are in the nature of a progress report only. 

Taylor, G.W.C. (1975) Technical requirements and prospects for new primary explosives. Proc. Inti. Conf. on Research in Primary Explosives, vol. 3 of 3, ERDE, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK, March 17-19, pp. 18/1-18/21. 

ROWANEX Royal Ordnance Waltham Abbey New Explosive... 

EC Powders (EC Propellants) (Brit and Amer). Accdg to Marshall 1 (Ref 2. pp 39 47). the early attempt (beginning ca 1852) of an Austrian Officer von Lenk to produce a smokeless powder was unsuccessful because it was too violent in its action and either damaged the gun barrel or burst it open. Von Leak s powder consisted of NC prepd by nitrating unpulped cotton by the Schonbein process, hut purified more thoroughly. The dried materiaL was loaded unpressed in the guns and that is why it burned so quickly. F. Abel of Waltham Abbey improved in 1865 the purification of NC because he pulped it previously to washing. 

P.W.J Moore, J.F.Sumner R.M.H. Wyatt, The Electrostatic Spark Sensitiveness of Initiators Part I—Introducr tian and Study of Spark Characteristics , ERDE(Explosives Research. and Development Establishment) Report4/T/56, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England (Jan 1956)... 

In Britain, the manufacture of cordite had commenced in 1889 in the royal gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. The acetone, which was critical to the process, was made from the distillate collected from wood that was heated to a high temperature. The best wood for this purpose came from the forests of continental Europe, and it was therefore unavailable to the British after the start of World War i. But in 1915 a chance meeting solved this problem. C.P. Scott of The Manchester Guardian introduced David Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, to one Chaim Weizmann. 

Blackpowder mills (using the Corning process) were erected at Rotherhithe and Waltham Abbey in England between 1554 and 1603. 

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