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Catalogue description Admiralty: Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath: Reports
| Reference: | ADM 322 |
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| Title: | Admiralty: Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath: Reports |
| Description: |
This series contains a published history of the Admiralty's Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, and an example of one of its reports from 1930. |
| Date: | 1930-1983 |
| Related material: |
Other records about cordite production including RNCF progress can be found in |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Admiralty, Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, 1916-1957 |
| Physical description: | 2 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1999 Ministry of Defence |
| Selection and destruction information: | No other Royal Naval Cordite Factory reports appear to have surfaced after the site as cleared in 1996. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Holton Heath Factory, near Poole in Dorset, was opened in 1916 as an independent means of production of high grade propellants for Naval shells. The factory was involved in later rocket propellants but ceased production in 1957 with most of its work having being taken over by the Caerwent Cordite Factory. However, the Admiralty Materials Laboratory, which was formed in 1947, retained a presence on the site. |
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