Arrows to Atom Bombs. A history of the Ordnance Board

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First published 1967. A history of the Ordnance Board and not the Board of Ordnance. The writer, a brigadier, was an employee of the Ordnance Board, later a director, in the period c1930-69. Primarily concerned with weapon products, their development, etc. Covers predecessors organisations to Ordnance Board's whose formation here is defined as 1881. Structure in three parts: 1]: 'The beginning'; 'The Office of Ordnance'; 'Predecessors of the Ordnance Board'; 'The Board is born' [1881]; 2]: 'Propellants'; 'Guns'; 'Projectiles'; 'The attack of tank armour'; 'Fuzes'; 'Small arms'; 'Unguided weapons - aircraft, bombs - guided weapons'; 'Miscellaneous activities'; 'The Applied Ballistics Dept'; 3]: 'Associates of the Board'; 'Internal organisation'; 'The lighter side'. Extensive appendices [pp249-376] provide transcriptions of documents of late 19th and 20th century. Also includes a list of offices of the Board, 1881-1973.