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ORDNANCE SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Newsletters N° 1-47 and Journal Vols. 1-11

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AMMUNITION DRAWINGS
AMMUNITION REPORTS
ANECDOTES
ARTILLERY INSTRUMENTS, SCIENCE, WEIGHTS & MEASURES
BOOK REVIEWS & NEW PUBLICATIONS
COMMENTS, NOTES & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GUN-FIRING AND RE-ENACTMENTS
GUNFOUNDERS & GUNFOUNDING
GUNPOWDER AND PROPELLANTS
HISTORICAL PAPERS & NOTES
MEMBERS' AFFAIRS
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS & NOTES
MODELS
MUSEUMS, LOCATION & SITE REPORTS
ORDNANCE DRAWINGS (WITH DIMENSIONS)
ORDNANCE REPORTS
QUERIES
REPLIES, FEEDBACK
SOCIETY MEETINGS AND VISIT REPORTS
SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICATIONS OF ARTILLERY INTEREST

No. 26, for example, refers to Newsletter No. 26 and Vol. 7 refers to Journal No. 7

Ammunition Drawings
Ammo-Drawing	Debski, T.	No. 26
Cartridges, shells, headstamps, etc.	Debski, T.	No. 15
Cartridges, shells, headstamps, etc.	Debski, T.	No. 16
Davis Recoilless Guns	Overton, A.	No 46
Drawing: Ammunition (Illustration ca. 1870)	Contemporary	No. 25
Drawing: Finned artillery missiles in 1804	Contemporary	No. 23
Fuzes, projectiles, cartridges and feeding devices	Debski, T.	No. 12
German WWII 37mm anti-tank shot	Debski, T.	No. 17
Projectiles of the 19th century	Smith, C.	No. 17
Projectiles, two	Painter, K.	No. 8
Projectile, (unidentified)	Parker, T.	No. 30
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Ammunition Reports
Ammunition Research	Smith, C.	No. 25
Black Powder ?, How long has it been	Curtis, W.S.	No. 33
Bourbon Fuse: an explosive invention, the	Canisius, W.G.M.H.	Vol. 7
Cordite, 100 years back, (Engineering 1896)	Day, J.	No. 33
Feedback on previously published ammunition reports		No. 17
Gunpowder, Early appearance of the term	Curtis, W.S.	No. 33
Heavy Projectiles, (Scientific American, 1862)	Day, J.	No. 34
Hotchkiss rifled cannon ball, (Scientific American 1861)	Day, J.	No. 34
Lead-coated shells, I	Smith, C.	No. 18
Lead-coated shells, II	Smith, C.	No. 19
Manufactures in Woolwich Arsenal (illustrated)	Publ.1879	No. 24
Sir George Cayley's Shell Stability Experiments 1804/5	Day, J.	No. 23
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 25
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 26
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 27
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 28
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 30
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 31
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 35
The Ammo Box:	Parker, T.	No. 45
The Ammo Box: A crane ballast box (contents, shells)	Parker, T.	No. 22
The Ammo Box: (Arms and Ammunition Firearms Act)	Parker, T.	No. 21
The Ammo Box: A suitable case for treatment	Parker, T.	No. 11
The Ammo Box: British manufacturers' headstamps	Parker, T.	No. 15
The Ammo Box: British manufacturers' headstamps	Parker, T.	No. 16
The Ammo Box: British 20th century ammunition	Parker, T.	No. 19
The Ammo Box: British 95mm infantry howitzer	Parker, T.	No. 13
The Ammo Box: Follow up	Harry, W.	No. 35
The Ammo Box: General	Parker, T.	No. 18
The Ammo Box: German ammuntion of WWI	Parker, T.	No. 10
The Ammo Box: German WW II anti-tank projectiles	Parker, T.	No. 33
The Ammo Box: New legislation	Parker, T.	No. 20
The Ammo Box: Stamps of cartridge manufacturers	Parker, T.	No. 14
The 1993 Firearms Act Amendments - an update	Parker, T.	No. 19
Tithe Barn Shell, (Text and Drawing)	Campbell, B.	No. 33
The Tythe Barn Shell	Day, J.	No 35
2 Pdr. and Bofors 40mm Ammunition	Brandon, T.	No 43
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Anecdotes
Ammunition for the anti-smoking lobby	Anon	No. 31
A problem of mobility	Quadrant	No. 23
Modern trebuchet		No. 17
Nugget: re-discovery of a missing Dutch gun	Roth, R.	No. 25
Odd patents	Day, J.	No. 28
The Importance of being Angus	Brown, R.R.	No 45
The trials of research	Love, B.	No. 21
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Artillery instruments, science, weights & measures
A Fine 17th Century German gilt Gunner's level		No 42
British gunnery instrument makers, 18/19th centuries	Millburn, J.R.	No. 11
Gunnery instruments and their makers in the 18th century	Millburn, J.R.	Vol. 7
Gunner's Quadrant	Mitchell, C.	No 39
Gunner's Rule,the, an 18th century pocket compendium	Curtis, W.S.	No. 2
Gunner's rule, the, from the Bronze Bell wreck	Konstam, A.	Vol. 1
Gunner's rule, the, or tally sticks, further information	Green, J.	Vol. 2
Measurements and Weights (letter 'A')	Roth, R./Trollope, C.	No. 26
Measurements and Weights (Bilbliography)	Roth, R./Trollope, C.	No. 27
Measurements and Weights (letter 'B')	Roth, R./Trollope, C.	No. 28
Measurements and Weights (letter 'C')	Roth, R./Trollope, C.	No. 29
Measurements and Weights (letter 'D')	Roth, R.	No. 30
Measurements and Weights (letter 'E')	Roth, R.	No. 31
Measurements and Weights (letter 'F')	Roth, R.	No. 32
Measurements and Weights (letter 'G')	Roth, R.	No. 33
Measurements and Weights (letters "G" and "H")	Roth, R.	No. 36
Measurements and Weights (letter "I")	Roth, R.	No. 37
Measurements and Weights (letter "I")	Roth, R.	No. 45
Measurements and Weights (letters "J, K, L, Le")	Roth, R.	No. 46
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Book Reviews & New Publications
A Pictorial Record of the RN Cordite Factory, Holton Heath	Parker, T.	No 38
British Naval Armament (Conference Proceedings)	Lyon, D.	No. 9
British Naval Armament (Conference Proceedings)	Ware, C.	Vol. 2
Bombarde, Mons Meg and her Sisters	Lyon, D.	Vol. 1
Castles and Fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945	Editor	No. 32
Diagrams of Guns, W.S. Curtis	Caruana, A.B.	No. 32
Goleta guns,	Lyon, D.	No. 6
Guide to Civil War Artillery Projectiles, Melton & Pawl's	Jenkins, W.R.S.	Vol. 9
L'Artillerie de Mer (France 1650-1850)	Shipman, J.	No. 23
Louis XV's Navy 1748-1762	Lyon, D.	No. 4
Moving the Guns	Smith, R.D.	No. 13
Naval Percussion Locks and Primers of the USA	Armstrong, R.	No. 30
Portland's Historic Battery (1879)	Garie, F.	No. 31
Privilege and Profit	Braid, D.	No. 12
Seacoast Artillery US War Dept. (re-print)	Wilson, G.	No. 32
The Art of Gunfounding	Cadie, M.	No. 17
The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast and Naval Cannon	Blackmore, H.	No 43
The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523-1875, Vol.1	Roth, R.	No. 29
The Loss of the VOC Ship Batavia in 1629	Brown, R.R.	Vol. 2
The Royal Arsenal Woolwich	Day, J.	No 38
The Sea Gunner by John Seller (1691)	Roth, R.	No. 26
The Visser Collection, Volume II, Ordnance	de Beer, C.	No 37
The Visser Collection, Volume II, Ordnance	Jenkins, W.R.S.	Vol. 9
Victoria's Guns	Garie, F.	No. 29
Victoria's Guns	Roth, R.	No 36
We Stood and Waited (Sydneys anti-ship defences WW II)	Garie, F.	No. 30
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Comments, Notes & Letters to the Editor
About careless reprint of historical reports	Caruana, A.B.	No. 27
About the calibre & English pound, ca. 1540-60	Trollope, C.N.	No. 15
A plea for standardisation (of correct gun abbreviations)	Trollope, C.N.	No. 29
Appeal on behalf of British Shooting Sports Council (BSSC)	Overton, A.	No 43
Armstrong carriage project in Australia	Garie, F.	No. 22
A survey of Russian Trophy guns, an invitation	Hennessy, N.St.J., Robins, C.	No 35
Black Powder,	Briggs, J.	No. 31
British Shooting Sports Council (BSSC)	Overton, A.	No 35
Can you beat it? Note on spark plug collectors, USA	Armstrong, R.	No. 21
Can you beat it? Note on buttonhooks Society, UK	Armstrong, R.	No. 32
Defence of Britain Project	Editor	No. 32
Dover's Double Alert	Forbes-Morgan, R.	No. 27
Explosives into fertiliser (East German disposal)	Trollope, C.N.	No. 21
Firearms legislation	Wilkinson, F.	No 37
Fort McLeod, a note	Calnan, M.T.	No. 21
Fort Nelson: aquisitions and events	Hall, N.	No. 19
Geometry of War, The, (Exhibition, event)	Editor	No. 34
Help! (Volunteers for Rotunda, Woolwich, wanted)	Day, J.	No. 33
Kent Cannons	Smith, C.	No. 23
Letter to the Editor, (about Rotunda Museum, Vol.6)	Wilson, G.M.	No. 28
Longridge's wire wound guns	Day, J.	No. 19
Looking after the Pennies, Historical Note	Millburn, J.R.	No. 24
Magnesium, (The Engineer 1866)	Day, J.	No. 34
Mines Advisory Group	Gander, T.	No. 33
New arrivals at Fort Nelson	Henry, C.	No 36
New developments at Fort Nelson	Henry, C.	No 37
Note on an Arabian gun	Brighton, L.	No. 24
Note of English Instrument Makers	Millburn, J.	No. 24
Notes on the Sithof gun of N. St. John Hennessy	De Gryse, P.	No. 23
Note on the Woolwich Explosion	Baker, H.A.	No. 24
On new W-I ordnance from the Mary Rose Trust	Trollope, C.	No. 15
Ordnance and the Internet	Parker, T.	No 44
Ordnance and the Internet - continued	Parker, T.	No 45
Recent Arrival at Fort Nelson (Mallet's Mortar)	Hall, N.	No. 26
S.H.A. Conference, Texas, (event advert)	Editor	No. 34
Royal Armouries, London (inquiries by the public)	Hall, N.	No. 30
Shell Velocity	Smith, C.	No. 27
Six 24 Pdr. "Fieldguns"	Anstee, A.	No. 25
Small Cannon and the law	Armstrong, R.	No 40
Tebbutt Research Fund	Editor	No. 32
The Tal-y-Bont gunner's rule	Brown, R.R.	Vol. 2
Thinking about "De Profundis" (Sithof gun)	Hartley, G.	No. 25
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Gun-Firing and Re-enactments
Firing a Victory cannon	Elvin, J.G.	No. 5
Gun-Firing at Fort George 1991	Caruana, A.B.	No. 16
Living history and gun firing events at Fort Nelson 1995	Hall, N.	No. 30
Other gun firing events in 1995	Hall, N.	No. 30
Roaring Guns at Quex Park 1989	Roth, R.	No. 8
The guns firing at Quex Park 1990	Roth, R.	No. 12
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Gunfounders & Gunfounding
Alexander Theophilus Blakely	Caruana, A.B.	Vol. 4
An Armstrong controversy	Day, J.	Vol. 9
Anthony Bacon as gunfounder	Braid, D.	No. 4
Blakely andGreenwich	Mills, M.	Vol.11
Early gunfounding activities of the Carron Company	Higginbottom, M.	No. 7
Early cast iron gun industry from a MS account book	Barter, S.	Vol. 3
Elton Bott	Day, J.	No 39
Francisco Alvarez, (Portugal)	Smith, R.B.	No. 34
H. Foxhall and the J. Wilkinson technology in the USA	Braid, D.	Vol. 3
How the Carron Company looked for orders	Barter, S.	No. 8
Indret in the French Revolution	Braid, D.	No. 6
James Nasmyth's large malleable iron guns in 1855	Braid, D.	Vol. 3
Lancaster Gun manufacture (Note of 1852)	Day, J	No. 32
Renaissance Man, the (15/16th century Master gunners)	Roth, R.	Vol. 6
The Bersham Ironworks	Williams, A.	No. 2
The Elswick gun order book	Lyon, D.	No. 3
The transfer of J. Wilkinson technology to France	Braid, D.	No. 9
TJ - an unknown trunnion mark	Brown, R.R.	No. 10
Transatlantic Puzzle, An engaging	Olmstead, E.	Vol.10
Who was T.A. Blakely ?	Day, J.	No. 30
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Gunpowder and propellants
An interesting theory	Day, J.	No 31
Black powder	Briggs, J.	No 31
Conference on Gunpowder manufacture, Waltham Abbey 25th April, 1998		No 41
Feedback: (Black powder)	Overton, A.	No. 33
Gunpowder in manufacture	Day, J.	No 37
Gunpowder, questions of terminology	Buchanan, B	No 36
Gunpowder, the manufacture of in France, 1702 (Part 1)	Roberts, D.H.	Vol. 5
Gunpowder, the manufacture of in France, 1702 (Part 2)	Roberts, D.H.	Vol. 6
International Ctty. for history of Technology, Budapest:
report on the Gunpowder Section	Buchanan, B.	No 36
Pearls from the dungheap: English saltpetre production	Bull, S.	Vol. 2
The scale model of The RNCF Holton Heath		No 38
100 Years back (1) - Cordite	Day, J.	No 33
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Historical Papers & Notes
A Mobile Artillery for Norfolk, 1805	Barney, J.	No 46
A Monster Gun from the Past	Day, J.	No. 26
An interesting theory (Engineering 3rd May 1895)	Day, J.	No. 31
An early spin, (Philus Ward. English Mechanic 17.5.1872)	Day, J.	No. 31
Armstrong 600-pounder (illustration)	Buchanan, J.	No. 20
Army & Navy Illustrated	McKenzie, I.	No. 19
Balaklava, heaving guns at ((Ill. London News 28.10.1854)	Robins, C.	No. 30
Blakely's 81/2-inch gun at the Great Exhibition (print)	Buchanan, J.	No. 19
Boer War, 9.2 inch gun firing	Slade, P.	No 42
Brass gun, 80-pdr (Engineer 20th July 1860)	Day, J.	No. 28
C A D Kineton, Historical Notes	Cobb, P.	No. 23
Cannon lock for gas check primers, 1869 (print)	Buchanan, J.	No. 21
Conversions of US ML-guns, (Engineering 1st April 1892)	Day, J.	No. 30
Early Automatic Breech mechanism, an	Scott, G.	No. 27
English Guns (in US CW, Scientific American, 1862)	Day, J.	No. 34
Faulty mortars, (The Engineer 14th March 1856)	Day, J.	No. 30
Firing experimental fuzes, 1885	Day, J.	No. 20
First Book of the Brazilian Government, (artillery treatise)	Barker, R./de Castro	Vol. 7
Gun Drill in the French Revolutionary Navy	Roberts, D.H.	Vol.10
Gunpowder, the manufacture of in France, 1702 (Part 1)	Roberts, D.H.	Vol. 5
Gunpowder, the manufacture of in France, 1702 (Part 2)	Roberts, D.H.	Vol. 6
Handbook, 6-inch BL guns, Mark VII & VII v	Buchanan, J.	No. 22
How Guns are Made (Publication of 1896)	Turner, A.	No. 26
How Guns burst, Holley 1866	Buchanan, J.	No. 18
Instructions for Navy Gunners, (Gibson report of 1603)	Day, J.	No. 30
Krupp Official Catalogue, Worlds Exhib. Columbia 1893	Parker, T.	No 39
Mafeking's Naval Gun (Illustrated)	Buchanan, J.	No. 26
Mallet's mortar (illustration)	Buchanan, J.	No. 19
Norton's concussion fuze (Engineer 29th Feb. 1856)	Day, J.	No. 29
Notes from the Past (The Engineer 4.1.-15.2.1856)	Day, J.	No. 27
Not if I'm there	Day, J.	No. 20
Progress in 1897		No 40
Red hot guns, (Engineer 16th Nov. 1860)	Day, J.	No. 28
The Burst Gun of the Thunderer (illustrations)	Publ, ca. 1880	No. 24
The Journal of William Schellinks-England 1661-63	Exwood, M./Lehman	No. 30
The Importance of being Angus	Brown, R.R.	No 45
The longitudinal cylindrical Truss for Ordnance (1866)	Day, J.	No. 34
The Lyman-Haskel multi-charge gun, 1885, report	Day, J.	No. 20
The multi-charge gun, 1885, note	Day, J.	No. 20
The properties, Office and Duetie of A Gunner	Cyp. Lucer (1544)	No. 25
Two pieces from Norfolk Chronical, 1803	Barney, J.	No 45
Whiskey v. Cannon, (Scientific American, 1862)	Day, J.	No. 34
William Richardson, from the Journal	Barney, J.	No. 28
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Members' Affairs
Adrian Caruana, a Tribute	Trollope, C.	No 46
Caruana, Capt. A.B., RA ret.: award of Burne Medal	Editor	No. 14
Kost, Karl, donation to the Society for advertising	Editor	No. 19
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Miscellaneous Papers & Notes
A Glance at Ricochet	Barker, R.	Vol.10
A miscellany (black powder ballistics, etc.)	Barker, R.	Vol. 2
An Archaeological discovery	Smith, R.D.	No 41
Anzio Annie, (German railway guns, WW II)	Parker, T.	No. 30
Arcanus gun, a lost	Brown, R.R.	No. 5
Armada guns and gunnery, note on	Trollope, C.N.	No. 5
Armour plate, the evolution and process of to 1914	Knight, S.A.	Vol. 5
Armstrong, 10 inch, 20 ton project - reconstruction of
carriage and slide	Garie, F.	No 41
Artillery and the Spanish Civil War	Henry, C.T.	Vol.10
Balaklava, guns manned by the Turks at	Canfield, E.B.	No. 28
Billbook project at the Royal Armouries, the	Konstam, A.	No. 1
Brierley Hill Foundry Order Book, 1812-1825, the	Robins, C.	Vol. 7
British naval boarding pike of 1888, the	Ferguson, T.	No. 17
British RML project at the Royal Armouries, the	Murray-F., M.	No. 1
Burgundian heraldry, a footnote on