Talk:Ministry of Supply

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No merge.

The Minister of Supply article is, and should be, essentially a history of the post holders, date in and date out, and possibly any scandals associated with that particular minister.
The Ministry of Supply article is, and should be, about what the department did, acheived, or failed to do. It also enables predecessor departments to be [linked] and discussed; as well as successor departments.
I personnally have little interest in Ministers, but I am interested in the department. I note there was a proposal to merge other ministers/departments, such as Ministry of Munitions of War. My comments would be identical, in this case. Pyrotec 16:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Potential typo[edit]

In WWII/The Royal Ordnance Factories, it's written «these were mostly designed and built by private armaments companies». Sounds wrong to me, the s at armament. But I'm no native speaker, so I'd like a more qualified person to make the decision. That's all! Cheers, Thouny (talk) 05:39, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are right about the grammar, but it's a total mouthful of a sentence either way! I'm going to change it to, "arms companies", which is a very commonly used contraction in English (73m google hits for "arms companies" vs 21,000 for "armament companies" vs 14,500 for "armaments companies"). Thanks Thom2002 (talk) 21:23, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ministry of Supply still active post 1959[edit]

I'm looking at a Rolls-Royce drawing that contains a Ministry of Supply stamp dated 10 October 1960. 109.68.192.224 (talk) 09:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

QUESTION ABOUT THE MoS

Can anyone tell me what the "S.S. Division" was in the Ministry of Supply? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.171.127 (talk) 20:00, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]