Talk:MD1 (military R&D organisation)

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Reliable?[edit]

It appears that this entire article was copied (imperfectly) from http://www.coleshillhouse.com. What assurances do we have of its accuracy? Has anyone checked this with the book "Winston Churchill's Toy Box", which documents this organization?

Separately, this sentence is problematic:

With the end of the war and the removal of Churchill from office, MD1 was taken over by the Ministry of Supply and the Weapons research establishment at WFort Haldane with the result that it was disbanded.

The "WFort Haldane" was originally rendered as "Fort Haldane", which does exist, but the only references to "Fort Haldane" are a fort in Jamaica that was created and abandoned in the 18th Century. To what is this really referring? I assume "Weapons" should not be capitalized. Timrprobocom (talk) 17:32, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Other way round probably. Coleshill site at bottom says its references are "Discovery UK Press images, BRA, Wikipedia.". GraemeLeggett (talk) 21:14, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have recently read Winston Churchill's Toy Box and as I recall the article is basically correct, but I didn't look at details like exactly which organization took it over and deliberately destroyed it and all their works, tooling, etc. BTW it was criminal that their time delay fuze operation was disbanded and destroyed, that was a unique thing that I don't think could get replicated until semiconductor electronics got good and small enough. But also read R.V. Jones' Most Secret War, looks like the general pattern was envious bureaucrats deliberately destroyed the crown jewels that helped win the war. Although dismantling all but two Colossus machines was not an example, they were like ASICs, too much of their machinery was for the very specific Lorenz cipher which stopped being used when Nazi Germany surrendered. And the Enigma machine was still pretty much state of the art, the flaws were more in how the Germans used it. Hga (talk) 20:04, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]