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	AIM25: Royal Armouries Library, London: Royal Armouries and Office of Ordnance
		Administrative/Biographical history: The Office of the Armoury and the Ordnance Office both evolved in the early 15th century from the activities of the Privy Wardrobe, one of the departments of the Royal Household, with offices at the Tower of London.
		The first Master of the Ordnance was appointed in 1414, and the Ordnance Office became responsible for the supply of munitions and equipment to the army and navy.
		In the early 19th century the Board of Ordnance, which was responsible for the maintenance of the collection, began the process of re-organising the displays on a more academic basis.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/70/7244.htm (1313 words)

	Army Ordnance Corps
		The history of the Army Ordnance Corps can be traced back to the Board of Ordnance, which originated in the 15th century and existed till 1855.
		In 1986 the Board of Ordnance was transferred to Secretary of State for War.
		Ordnance is also responsible for Ammunition Management for the complete range of Munitions from a pistol bullet to a Bofors Shell and all Missiles.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/aoc.htm (988 words)

	Further Info - Military Maps of Scotland - National Library of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The sections below give the background to the Board of Ordnance and Wade collections, describe their value as historical sources, provide a historical background explaining the context in which the maps were made, and conclude with suggestions for further reading.
		By the 19th century, the Board was increasingly dominated by army officers and was closely linked to the army, paving the way for the abolition of the Board and the merging of its duties with that of the War Office in 1855.
		Although the majority of the Board of Ordnance's archives are in the Public Record Office in London (in the WO78 class), there are significant collections of Board of Ordnance maps elsewhere, particularly in the Royal Library in Windsor Castle, and in the British Library in London.
	www.nls.uk /digitallibrary/map/military/info.html (2329 words)

	Ordnance
		The Ordnance Department was established on May 14,1812 as a separate branch in the U.S. Army, however in 1821 it was merged with the Artillery.
		The Ordnance Department adopted the "Shell and Flame" as its official insignia in 1832, but it wasn’t until 1851 when uniform changes were taking place that the "Shell and Flame" became the distinctive insignia of the Ordnance Department being worn by both officers and enlisted men.
		The Ordnance Department was headed by a Colonel in the 1850's and elevated to the rank of Brigadier General on August 3,1861.
	www.1stnmvi.com /ordnance_department.htm (1294 words)

	Evolution of the Ordnance Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1778 the term "Ordnance Department" was in general use in the correspondence between Knox, Washington, and the President of the Continental Congress, as well as in the regulation that the Continental Congress adopted.
		Ordnance, arms, and military stores in the fixed magazines could be withdrawn only by orders of the Board of War except in emergencies, when any delay in obtaining such orders could be disastrous.
		Whenever ordnance items in the field were so damaged that they could not be repaired there, they were sent to the Commissary General of Military Stores or to any of his deputies, who received them and immediately had them repaired or replaced them with others fit for service.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/risch/chpt-11.htm (9431 words)

	Record Group 165 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Board of Ordnance and Fortifications was given the duty of implementing the policy set forth by the Endicott Board.
		This Board examined and delivered decisions on such issues as the use of disappearing carriages vs. barbette carriages, armored turrets and casemates, searchlights, and even the introduction of the airplane to coast defense.
		This was the Board formed to examine the current state of the defenses defined under the Endicott Board, and make recommendations as to how that Board's report should be updated.
	members.aol.com /Vexillarii/RG165.html (191 words)

	Indian Army : Our Identity
		The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was "Usa Tela Tananti" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance.
		Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the Colours by the Vice President of India Shri GS Pathak on 08 December 1970 at AOC Centre Secunderabad.
		The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers.
	www.indianarmy.nic.in /ariden1.htm (1105 words)

	Collector Cafe - Register
		Ordnance Survey - Most early mappings of the British Isles were originally done on a county by county basis and were not particularly accurate.
		This inspired a joint military and civilian venture between the Board of Ordnance and the Duke of Richmond who set up a survey office in the Tower of London in 1782.
		It should be borne in mind that the Board of Ordnance was originally a military organisation responsible for the country’s weapons amongst other things.
	www.collectorcafe.com /article_archive.asp?article=380&id=1023 (364 words)

	IOMNHAS vol 3 no 4 p388 - Ordnance Survey of I.O.M.
		The Ordnance Survey Office at the Tower of London was destroyed by fire during the year 1841, and this resulted in the headquarters of the Survey being transferred to Southampton, where the Board of Ordnance happened to have some buildings at their disposal.
		The Ordnance Surveyors are careful not to give any lead in the matter of place-names, or to write any names on the maps without consulting the best authorities obtainable for the time being: and when this is understood, it is obvious that much of the criticism directed against the Survey Department regarding names is pointless.
		The Ordnance Datum, from which the heights of all eminences in the Isle of Man were measured, was obtained by a series of readings from a Tide Gauge fixed to a low-water pier or jetty, north of the Pollock Rocks.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/iomnhas/v034p388.htm (4438 words)

	Ordnance Factories
		The Ordnance Factories Organisation is the largest departmentally run production organisation in the country and is engaged primarily in the manufacture of Defence hardware.
		The Ordnance Factory Board was accordingly formed with Director General as Chairman and 9 Members in the rank of Addl.
		Ordnance Factory estates have been built to provide residential facilities to the employees and their families.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/of.htm (1221 words)

	Rifled Ordnance
		But the Board of Ordnance, having found it worked perfectly, rejected it on the grounds that spherical missiles were the only types acceptable for military purposes.
		In Britain the Board of Ordnance at last woke up and let it be known they were prepared to evaluate any pieces of rifled ordnance inventors might offer.
		The first to be tried was one by Lancaster, a well-known maker of sporting guns, who in 1850 patented a system of rifling having a smooth bore of oval or elliptical section with a twist increasing from breech to muzzle.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/gun/rifled1.htm (1288 words)

	The Scottish Parliament Excavation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the end of the Napoleonic Wars the building was once again effectively redundant and as early as 1816, and again in 1823, the Board of Ordnance attempted unsuccessfully to sell it off as surplus to requirements.
		In the end, because of fear of cholera infection from vagrants, the city established a House of Refuge in 1832 and this eventually became the Queensberry House Hospital (1945).
		At first it was leased from the Board of Ordnance but in 1854 it was finally purchased by the directors.
	www.holyroodarchaeology.org /QH/QH1803.html (330 words)

	GREAT BRITAIN. BOARD OF ORDNANCE. RECORD BOOK OF THE PLYMOUTH OFFICE OF ORDNANCE
		When ships came to port at Plymouth, the Office of Ordnance issued orders for the artillery and small arms to be removed to the arsenal for inventory.
		This record book of the Plymouth Office of Ordnance documents military preparedness at a key British port during the early years of the Seven Years War.
		The Office of Ordnance in Plymouth managed the military supplies for the Citadel of Plymouth, St. Nicholas Island, and outer line defenses near those fortifications.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/ordnance.htm (858 words)

	Countryside Recreation Network: Sponsors
		Its board is made up of business people with knowledge and expertise in the areas of tourism, marketing and commerce.
		Ordnance Survey — Britain’s national mapping agency — is widely regarded as the world leader in its field.
		The Wales Tourist Board is the lead public agency for tourism in Wales and its essential role is to bring strategic direction to a fragmented industry.
	www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk /sponsors.asp (1955 words)

	Historical Introduction to Ordnance Survey of Isle of Man
		Prior to the national Ordnance Survey, mappings of the British Isles had been done on a county basis; these were on differing scales and although some were good most were inaccurate.
		It was following General William Roy's survey of Scotland following the 1745 rebellion that inspired the Board of Ordnance (the body responsible for weapons etc.) to undertake a similar survey of England and Wales.
		The Ordnance Survey was officially established in 1791 for the express purpose of making a national map on the scale of One Inch to One Mile (scale 1:63360).
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/maps/os.htm (1151 words)

	Old Comrades History - Red, Blue and Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In bygone times, whenever a 'train of artillery' was formed for active service it came directly under the Board of Ordnance, headed by the Master (Master-General from 1603) of the Office of Ordnance.
		Now the Board of Ordnance ran this organisation as a kind of private army independent of the War Department, or what passed for the latter in those days.
		Being a law unto itself as it were, the Board designed and issued its own uniforms which differed markedly from those worn by the other branches of the service, ie the infantry and cavalry.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/art60c.htm (281 words)

	The Colonial Powder Magazine, Spectacle Island
		During the early days of the colony of New South Wales the Naval Ordnance and powder came, as was the case in Great Britain, under the control of the Master General of the Ordnance through the Board of Ordnance which existed between 1597 and 1855.
		In 1855 the responsibility for the administration of ordnance passed to the Secretary of State for War by royal decree "revoking the letters patent of the Master General, Lieutenant-General and Principal Storekeeper of the Ordnance".
		In 1870 the Ordnance Storekeeper's Department was abolished with the withdrawal of Imperial forces from the Colony.
	users.tpg.com.au /borclaud/spec_island/colonial.html (1223 words)

	Ordnance Factories General Managers' Conference
		The Ordnance Factories Board organised a conference of the General Managers of all the 39 Ordnance Factories in New Delhi recently.
		Indian Ordnance Factories Organisation is the largest departmentally run industrial undertaking in the country and is primarily engaged in the manufacture of armaments, ammunition, transport vehicle, armoured vehicle, clothing and spares required for equipment for the three services.
		The performance of Ordnance Factories during the preceding years has been commensurate with the requirements of various major indenters i.e., Defence Services and Ministry of Home Affairs.
	mod.nic.in /samachar/1aug2000/html/ch8.htm (270 words)

	Chapter More about Bridgewater Foundry - Woolwich Arsenal of Autobiography by James Nasmyth
		In 1847 the attention of the Board of Ordnance was, directed to the inadequacy of the equipment of the workshops there.
		The Board did me the honour to call upon me to advise with them, and also with the heads of departments at the arsenal.
		I made a careful survey of all the workshops, and although the machinery was very interesting as examples of the old and primitive methods of producing war material, I found that it was better fitted for a Museum of Technical Antiquity than for practical use in these days of rapid mechanical progress.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/9/70/117/24607/5.html (710 words)

	2534.08 Advisory Board. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The board shall consist of the director or his designate, who shall serve as chairman, and two (2) other members appointed by the mayor.
		Each appointed member shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until his successor is appointed and qualified except for the initially appointed certified blaster who shall serve a term of two (2) years.
		(B) The members of the board shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses in attending meetings of the board.
	ordlink.com /cgi-bin/hilite.pl/codes/columbus/_DATA/TITLE25/Chapter_2534_DANGEROUS_ORDNANCE/2534_08_Advisory_Board_.html (192 words)

	Unfolding Landscapes
		Although its origins go back further, the formal foundation date of the Ordnance Survey - Great Britain’s national mapping agency - is usually taken to be 1791, when the Board of Ordnance, with the sanction of King George III, authorised the triangulation of Great Britain.
		Baker offered to sell his map of Cambridgeshire to the Board, but had to content himself with an undertaking that publication of the rival Ordnance Survey map (illustrated here) would be delayed.
		The early days of the Ordnance Survey were marked by disputes about the most appropriate scales at which maps should be surveyed and published - the ‘Battle of the Scales’ as it was called.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /exhibitions/unfold/os.htm (399 words)

	Signal Hill Gaol, 1846-1859
		In 1831, the Board of Ordnance (which oversaw British military spending at home and in the colonies) ordered that the two city forts were to be gradually phased out, and their personnel and facilities to be relocated to Signal Hill, which was considered more defensible.
		In March the Board of Ordnance approved the conversion of the barracks into military storehouses; at the same time, the Board ordered the construction of a new barrack in George's Valley, a more sheltered area of the hill.
		Accordingly, the House enacted the necessary legislation and a board of commissioners was established to superintend the construction and eventual management of the proposed penitentiary.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~melbaker/gaol.htm (3027 words)

	Bess
		The new procedure was a brave new attempt to remedy the chaos of arms diversity that England faced at the conclusion of the war of the Spanish Succession in 1713.
		Official control and proofing sources for the King's arms were the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London and the less disciplined Dublin Castle armory supplying troops in the "Irish Establishment." During wartime, supplementary contracts were often made with continental European manufacturers.
		Impressed by its experience with the Marine or Militia design, the Board of Ordnance approved a similar pattern during 1768 for issue beginning in 1769 as the new standard infantry arm.
	www.11thpa.org /Bess.html (3611 words)

	The Baker Rifle
		The weapons which those regiments used were determined by a completely separate department: the Board of Ordnance (which also raised and trained the artillery to be "loaned" to British Commanders in the field when required as well as organising all the weapons for the navy).
		The Board of Ordnance was a very professional and scientific department, who regularly conducted tests to ensure that the weapons they selected were up to standard.
		The Board were not very happy with the performance of these rifles: they had been designed primarily for hunting, they were excessively slow loading and they required cleaning every few shots.
	www.personal.usyd.edu.au /~slaw/SuesPage/baker.htm (1818 words)

	Development & Description of the Baker Rifle
		During this period, gunsmiths and soldiers knew that accuracy could be greatly improved by rifling guns but cost and reliability deterred widespread use of rifles by soldiers of any nation.
		The Army realised that at least a portion of these troops should be armed with a rifle, and the British Board of Ordnance sought to procure the best rifle possible to arm a specially trained rifle corps as well as existing rifle units like the 5/60th.
		Among those who were selected on this occasion, I was desired to attend: and a committee of field officers was appointed for the purpose of examining, and reporting according to their judgement.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~rifles95/rifle.htm (1812 words)

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		Board of Ordnance and Fortification [Repealed] 11 3.
		817, authorized transfer of naval ordnance and ordnance material from Navy Department to Department of War.
		388, provided for sale of useless ordnance materials, appropriated an amount equal to net proceeds of sale for purpose of procuring a supply of material, and limited expenditures to not more than $75,000 in any one year.
	uscode.house.gov /download/pls/Title_50.txt (9565 words)

	Wilkinson Sword - Royal Sword Makers - The Company - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Wilkinson continued making guns for the Board of Ordnance as well as the leading gentry of the day as the Wilkinson Sword record books reveal – but he did not possess the innovative spirit of his forebear.
		The crucial turning point came while the British Army were fighting in Sudan in 1885 and a scandal emerged as many bayonet swords were bending and breaking, thus resulting in the unnecessary loss of many lives.
		It outraged the public and the Board of Ordnance took immediate action, leading to Wilkinson Sword being given its largest order ever, to manufacture 150,000 bayonets.
	www.wilkinsonsword.com /company (1081 words)

	Analysis--The True Story of the Wright Brothers Contract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The matter was referred to the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, which seems to have given it scant consideration.
		Wright be informed that the Board does not care to formulate any requirements for the performance of a flying machine or take any further action on the subject until a machine is produced which by actual operation is shown to be able to produce horizontal flight and to carry an operator.
		After the conference [between Wilbur and the Board of Ordnance and Fortification on December 5, 1907], General Allen instructed the Chief of the Aeronautical Division to prepare a specification based on Mr.
	www.wifcon.com /analwright.htm (7027 words)

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