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Letter from Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, General Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, to Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty, concerning official recognition for the work of Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Ministry of Munitions, as an engineer, on the development of the tank. 2pp

Letter from Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, General Secretary, Ministry of Munitions to Stern indicating that Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, was being considered for the award of the OBE. 1p

Letter from Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, General Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, to Stern concerning the question of recognition given in Parliament to Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department and others responsible for the development of the tank. 1p

Cover letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a memorandum by Burgin of a meeting between them of 16 Feb 1940 and his hope that the account accurately represented their discussions. 1p

Cover letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern, relating to a memorandum of an interview between them on 16 Feb 1940. 1p

Letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the decision of the Military Co-ordination Committee, of the War Cabinet to order three prototype models of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, but not to place orders for one hundred engines, transmissions or any other material. 1p

Letter, (an enclosure to a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, making a final appeal against the decision to terminate work on the TOG 3 tank), from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the decision of the Military Co-ordination Committee, of the War Cabinet to order three prototype models of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, but not to place orders for one hundred engines, transmissions or any other material. 1p

Letter from A Watson, Principal Assistant Secretary to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to the Chief Passport Officer, Passport Office, London, making arrangements for the passage to France of seven named officials of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Letter from Edward Riley Stettinius, Special Representative, US War Department, to Stern, reporting on field tests on the Mark VIII tank. 1p

Letter from Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, to [Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty], regarding the issuing of a statement in Parliament to the effect that Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire and Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, contributed jointly to the successful design of tanks and recommending that both be considered for financial remuneration in the light of the difficulty of establishing patents. 1p

Letter from Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, to Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty, recommending that Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department and Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire both receive remuneration of £10,000 in connection with their work on the design and construction of tanks. 2p

Cover letter from Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, to Stern, relating to letters to and from Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty concerning the remuneration to be paid to Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, and Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

Letter from Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, to Stern, concerning the holding of a conference on landships (tanks) at the Committee of Imperial Defence, Whitehall. 1p

Letter from Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, to Stern, containing remarks on the landship (tank) project. 4pp

Letter from Frederick William Black, Director General Munitions Supply, Ministry of Munitions, to William Ashbee Tritton, of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, requesting that he interview the managing directors of previously agreed firms concerning the joint design and building of a large number of tractors. 1p

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern asking to know whether a consignment of sample plates of tank armour, requested on behalf of the French War Office was shortly to be despatched to France. 1p

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern, in reply to his letter of 8 May 1940 relating to trials of sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, requesting information about the results of the trials. 1p

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern, in reply to his letter of 23 Apr 1940 relating to the date of despatch of a consignment of sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, asking him whether trials of the plates had been held. 1p

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern requesting notification of the date of despatch of ten sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, requested on behalf of the French War Office. 1p

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, confirming his earlier letter of 9 Jan 1940 and anticipating delivery of sample plates of tank armour on behalf of the French War Office. 1p