Catalogue description Admiralty and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Ordnance Department and Weapons Department and Successors: Technical Reports and Papers 1888-1972

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Reference: ADM 256
Title: Admiralty and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Ordnance Department and Weapons Department and Successors: Technical Reports and Papers 1888-1972
Description:

Monthly records of principal questions dealt with by the Director of Naval Ordnance between 1888 and 1911, technical reports on weapons, including a large series of reports of trials of naval weapons at sea, proceedings of the Remote Position Control Panel, and Titbits, a summary of design and development work in hand. The series also includes technical reports by the Director General, Weapons, successor to the Director of Naval Ordnance.

Date: 1888-1974
Related material:

Records of the Ordnance Select Committee, etc after 1855 are in SUPP 6

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Admiralty, Director General, Weapons, 1960-1964

Board of Admiralty, Naval Ordnance Department, 1891-1958

Ministry of Defence, Navy Department, Director General, Weapons, 1964-1972

Physical description: 167 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1986 Ministry of Defence

Accruals: Series is accruing

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