Two Typed Letters Signed "E.W. Moir", Comptroller of Munitions Inventions, to The Secretary, Royal Society of Arts

Total 3pp., folio, fold marks, good condition. He asks the Scretary of the RSA to "draw the attention" of members to "to the fact that the Munitions Inventions Department, which ... was recently constituted by the Minister of Munitions for the purpose of dealing with ideas, suggestions and inventions for appliances in connection with the prosecution of warfare on land, has been authorised by him to receive projects of this nature ..." A panel is considering many ideas and would welcome more "suggestions with regard to simplification and improvements whether in the manufacture or in the materials of existing munitions, or indeed in any other regard". The second letter is a response to the Secretary's undertaking "to print the substance of [his] letter in [their] Journal this week." Note: Little has been written on this, "one of the most successful of several [wartime] Government advisory bodies" (see 'Social Studies of Science', Vol. 13, No. 4, Nov., 1983) .