National Explosives Co

of 36 Queen Street, London, EC

of Hayle, Cornwall

1886 Company established.

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

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.

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

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