If WW2 is anything to go by, in order to make sufficient munitions in time of war, factories used for other purposes in peacetime would have been converted. The whole engineering firm where my father worked in London was shipped to the north of England, where they made munitions in a disused cotton mill. The mill was on the maps but, as someone else said, it is most unlikely Ordnance Survey would have issued up to date maps during the war labelling the munitions works for the benefit of the enemy. Maps become secret documents in wartime (and they remained so in many places during the Cold War - whole cities in the Soviet Union did not appear on any map). MAR in France.

I have a map book published during WWII and it has no index! Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K. >From: ramaix <ramaix@orange.fr> >Reply-To: ramaix <ramaix@orange.fr> >To: WARWICK@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WAR] Local History - 1916 Munitions Factories >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:04:54 +0200 (CEST) > > > >If WW2 is anything to go by, in order to make sufficient munitions in time >of war, factories used for other purposes in peacetime would have been >converted. The whole engineering firm where my father worked in London was >shipped to the north of England, where they made munitions in a disused >cotton mill. The mill was on the maps but, as someone else said, it is >most unlikely Ordnance Survey would have issued up to date maps during the >war labelling the munitions works for the benefit of the enemy. Maps >become secret documents in wartime (and they remained so in many places >during the Cold War - whole cities in the Soviet Union did not appear on >any map). >MAR in France. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message