Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

National Explosives Co

From Graces Guide

of 36 Queen Street, London, EC

of Hayle, Cornwall

1886 Company established.

1890/1 Tendered for supply of cordite to the War Office[1]

1895 Supply of cordite began

1908 Company re-organised.

1914 Manufacturers of explosives. Specialities: high explosives, dynamite, gelignite, gelatine dynamite, blasting gelatine, cordite and guncotton. [2]

1918 Incorporated into Explosives Trades Ltd as part of the merger of 29 makers of explosives[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Jul 20, 1910
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  3. The Times, Dec 02, 1918