Files relating to the Department of Area Organisation and local organisation, 1915-1917, (fols. 1-118) printed and other papers, 1915-1916, including (fols. 25-61) Boards of Management for National Shell Factories and cooperative schemes, 1916, (fols. 62-115) Department of Munitions Supply papers of the Boards of Management Representation Committee, 1916, and discussions with the Admiralty; (fols. 119-210) 'London Munitions Committee: relations with Trench Warfare Department', papers of the Metropolitan Munitions Committee, 1915; (fols. 211-268) 'Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War', papers, 1915, including discussion of exemption of skilled workers from military service and housing; (fols. 269-331) printed and other papers on Boards of Management at National Shell Factories, with (fols. 315-331) index to Department of Area Organisation Executive Committee Meetings, Feb. 1917, and (fols. 332-373) minutes of 13th Executive Committee meeting, 11 Aug. 1916, with notes on Ministry of Munitions Scottish organisation, Oct. 1916.