'War demand and industrial production. The 'Dope Scandal', 1915-1919' in J M Winter (ed), War and Economic Development. Essays in memory of David Joslin
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- Author(s) Coleman, Donald C
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1975
- Pages pp139-64
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Discusses, largely via a narrative, the provision and manufacture of a strategically vital commodity under wartime conditions dealing in particular with the lack of significant indigenous supply of the chemical cellulose nitrate needed in aircraft construction; government contracting with Swiss suppliers - Henri and Camille Drefus; the erection of manufacturing facilities in UK; the financing and management of this and the establishment of British Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing Co Ltd in 1916; the quality of the product; the post war experience of the Cellulose business as British Celanese Ltd