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H.M. Factory, Gretna (or officially, His Majesty's Factory, Gretna) was the UK's largest Cordite factory during World War I. The government-owned facility was adjacent to the Solway Firth, near Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway. It was built by the Ministry of Munitions in direct response to the Shell Crisis of 1915.It is now the site of the Devil's Porridge Museum. ==Layout== H.M. Factory, Gretna stretched from Mossband near Longtown in the east, to Dornock / Eastriggs in the west straddling the Scottish / English border.〔Ministry of Munitions of War, Preface〕 The facility consisted of four large production sites and two purpose-built townships. The facility had its own independent transport network, power source, and water supply system. :Site 1, Smalmstown was to the north of Longtown (at ). :Site 2, Mossband was bounded on the west by the Caledonian Railway (now the West Coast Main Line), and the River Esk on the south and the east (at ).〔 :Site 3, Eastriggs was bounded to the north by the B721 and the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and south by the Solway Firth and the River Sark (at ).〔 :Site 4, Gretna was contained like Site 3 but it was adjacent to the Gretna township to the east (at ).〔 A military, narrow gauge railway was used to move materials and supplies around the sites. The network, which had of track, employed 34 engines. Electricity for the munitions manufacture and the townships was provided by a purpose-built coal-fired power station. The telephone exchange was handling up to 2.5 million calls in 1918. The townships has their own bakeries, a laundries and a police force. The laundry could clean 6,000 items daily and the bakeries made 14,000 meals a day. Water was taken from the River Esk, north of Longtown, through a diameter pipe to a pump house.〔 From there it was pumped through a main to a reservoir. A filtration/treatment works could handle up to ten million gallons a day.〔Ministry of Munitions of War, Chapter 2: Water Supply〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HM Factory, Gretna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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