"A WAR OF MACHINERY”: the British Machine Tool Industry and Arming the Western Front, 1914-1916
According to David Lloyd George, Britain’s first Minister of Munitions, World War L “the Great War” was a “war of machinery,” and required unprecedented supplies of ammunition and the machine tools necessary to make them. In the early phase of the conflict, when the importance of machine tools was...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Economic & Business History Society
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Essays in Economic and Business History |
| Online Access: | http://ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/194 |