Papers on Ordnance Factories, arising from the appointment of Sir Henry Brackenbury as Director-General of Ordnance. Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda. With a list of contents at the beginning of vol. 1.
Vol. 1. Includes a confidential memorandum from St John Brodrick, listing cases of negligence and incompetence among the military superintendents of the ordnance factories. In a postscript, Brodrick describes this as ‘such unpleasant reading that I only give it for your private eye and should ...
Vol. 2. Includes letters from Sir Henry Brackenbury, Sir Andrew Noble (owner of the Elswick Ordnance Company), Arthur Haliburton, Baron Haliburton, St John Brodrick and others.