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Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design and the Ordnance Board concerning the development of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch Tank and Anti-Tank gun. 1p

Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design concerning the supply of a drawing of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

Copies of two memoranda between Maj Somerset J Saunderson, Liaison Officer with Allied Military Authorities, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, Deputy Commissioner, London, Anglo-American Commission and Stern, concerning the refusal of the Director General of the Tank Corps (Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper) to issue copies of the report on the Battle of Cambrai, Western Front, 1917, to the Anglo-American Commission. 1p

Copy for Stern of memoranda from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply placing an order for two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board on the firing trials of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun in 17 pounder tank mounting, including the tabulated results of buffer pressure diagrams. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board, containing a technical design specification of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for 17 pounder tank mounting and note by the Ordnance Board of agreement with the design. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to D P & E O (W) relating to the turning off of two hundredweight from one of the two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns in 17 pounder tank mounting proved at Woolwich and arrangements for the subsequent firing trials of the lightened gun. 1p

Copy of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Canadian Military Headquarters for Stern containing his observations on a paper written by Maj Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a letter from US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK to Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply relating to types of gearbox for use in tanks. 1p

Typescript copy of a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply describing the plans for the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Copy of letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern proposing that Stern and the three other unofficial members of the Tank Board should form a Sub-Committee to investigate the organisation and methods of procedure of the Production Department and the Design Department of the Ministry of Supply and the performance of the tanks then in production. 1p

Copy for Stern of a letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office proposing that the Tank Board inspect the TOG 2 tank and its records as soon as its trials at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire were completed. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire relating to the manufacture of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

Two extracts made by Stern from first, the charter of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply received from Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, 13 Aug 1941, to the effect that the Committee were entitled to use the full technical resources of Ministry of Supply by arrangemant with the appropriate departmental heads and second, a letter from Stern to Lucas of 27 Feb 1942 listing seven research proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Extract from History of the Ministry of Munitions, Vol 12, Part 3, Tanks, (1920), page 67, relating to the establishment and composition of the Tank Board in Aug 1918. 1p

Extract from History of the Ministry of Munitions, Vol 12, Part 3, Tanks, (1920), page 67, relating to the establishment and composition of the Tank Board in Aug 1918. 1p

Extract from a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, of 24 May 1940, criticising the design of the Infantry Tank Mark IV partly on grounds of the fire danger posed by its petrol motor and advocating that production be delayed pending independent tests. 1p

Copies of Hansard, the record of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons for 25 Feb 1943; 30 Jun 1943; 2 Mar 1944; 16 Mar 1944; 25 Apr 1944; 21 Dec 1944; 13 Mar 1945; 14 Mar 1945 (HMSO, London). Manuscript notes by Stern highlight the debates of interest to him in relation to tank development. 8 vols

Memorandum from the Munitions Inventions Department, Ministry of Munitions, containing comments on the minutes of a meeting of the Munitions Inventions Department, 9 Aug 1915. 2pp

Report on the position of four items of work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, authorised by the Ministry of Supply, namely a spring suspension for the TOG 2 tank, 17 pounder gun turret for the TOG 2 tank, hydraulic transmission for the TOG 1 tank and the installation of a torque convertor and testing of the TOG 1 tank. 1p