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Catalogue description Records of the Directorate of Materials and Explosive Research and Development and its experimental establishments
| Reference: | Division within AVIA |
|---|---|
| Title: | Records of the Directorate of Materials and Explosive Research and Development and its experimental establishments |
| Description: |
Records of the Directorate of Materials and Explosive Research and Development and its experimental establishments relating to research into explosives and other military supplies. Comprises reports and memoranda, AVIA 37 and AVIA 45, registered files, AVIA 67 and reports and technical notes, AVIA 72 |
| Date: | 1940-1978 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Aviation, Directorate of Materials and Explosive Research and Development, 1959-1967 Ministry of Supply, Chemical Research and Development Department, 1945-1948 Ministry of Supply, Directorate of Materials and Explosive Research and Development, 1939-1959 Ministry of Supply, Explosives Research and Development Establishment, 1948-1958 |
| Physical description: | 4 series |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Ministry of Supply's (and later Ministry of Aviation's) Directorate of Materials and Explosives Research and Development was the headquarters directorate responsible for the funding and direction of work at the Explosives Research and Development Establishment, as well as a Materials Advisory Service in London, a Materials Laboratory at Waltham Abbey and the Tropical Testing Establishment in Nigeria. The Chemical Research and Development Department, was created in 1945 at the former Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey. In 1948 it became the Explosives Research and Development Establishment. It passed successively to the Ministry of Aviation in 1959 and the Ministry of Technology in 1967. |
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