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Report by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on a discussion between himself, Stern and J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, concerning a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

Two copies of a report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, at which they discussed the lack of an order from the Army for heavy tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, at which Stern was told of the formation of a new Tank Board, was offered a seat on the new Board and expressed his view of the existing unsatisfactory nature of tank design and production. 1p

Typescript report, with manuscript annotations, of meeting held at the Tank Corps Central Workshops, Erin, France, to discuss problems with the Mark III tank and proposed improvements to the Mark IV tank. 3pp

Report by US Capt E W Hay, US Ordnance Department, of a meeting to compare the American Army Corps Mark VIII tank with the all-British Mark VIII tank, at the request of Edward Riley Stettinius, Special Representative, US War Department. 6pp

Report of meeting held at the French Ministry of Inventions, Paris, France, relating to the first use of French tanks at Juvencourt, France, during the Nivelle Offensive, Western Front, Apr 1917. 2pp

Report by Stern of an interview between himself and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, at the House of Commons at which Stern recommended the appointment of a Tank Board and raised the question of whether an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply would be placed if the pilot trial were a success. 1p

Report of a discussion over lunch between Stern and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to the tank designers working on behalf of both the Department of Tanks and Transport Ministry of Supply and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern's view that the members of his Committee should have regular meetings with the designers of the Department of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply and representatives of the War Office. 2pp

Report of a meeting of the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London, including discussion of the propsals for TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

Progress report of the Landships Committee, covering constructional work and experimental work. 3pp

Report by Stern on a type of high quality steel plate or high quality steel casting used as armour in the construction of French tanks, made in the course of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Report by Stern of interviews between himself and Lt Gen Laurence Carr, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, in the course of which Carr informed Stern that the order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply had been turned down by the Military Co-ordinating Committee, of the War Cabinet because Burgin had said that the order would interfere with the future development of tanks and Burgin suggested that his attitude had been incorrectly represented. 2pp

Report by Stern of a visit by Maj Gen the Rt Hon John Edward Bernard Seely, Deputy Minister of Munitions, Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore, Controller, Mechanical Warfare Department, Ministry of Munitions, Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, Assistant Controller and Director of Production, Mechanical Warfare Department, US Lt Col James A Drain, US Commissioner, Anglo-American Commission, Capt Norman Edward Holden, Deputy Commissioner, Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, Controller, Anglo-American Commission and Stern to the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France, including a reference to Seely being dumbfounded at the lack of method and equipment on the site. 1p

Report by Stern on a visit by James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, to Stern's home at Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent, at which they held discussions relating to the Tank Board and the future of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Report by Stern on his discussions with representatives of US tank production relating to transmission, engines, armament and a specific comparison between the US Heavy Tank T1 and the TOG 3 tank and stating that it was unwise to leave heavy tank development entirely to their Allies. 3pp

Report number 1185 (including photographs, drawings and blueprints) by Ricardo and Company (1927) Limited for Stern on development tests of hydraulic motor unit carried out under Ministry of Supply letter of authority dated 1 Sep 1941, 294/T 5013 (Con. 8A), with a report by John Frederick Peck, Professor of Hydraulics, Loughborough College Scientific Society on the Report number 1185 by Ricardo and Company (1927) Limited, 14 Apr 1942 and a letter from Peck to Stern of 9 Mar 1942 on huydraulic transmission in tanks, relating to the US Heavy Tank T1 E1, the US Heavy Tank T1 E2, Borg-Warner transmission and Bendix transmission. 3 copies

Report number 1173 by Ricardo and Company (1927) Limited on the general question of engines for tanks. 2 copies

Report by Maj E W Gordon-Hall, Royal Tank Regiment, on a visit to the Middle East theatre of operations Feb 1941 to Apr 1941, to obtain information on behalf of the Ministry of Supply about the operations of British armoured formations in the Cyrenaica, Libya campaign, 1940-1941. 15pp

Report by Maj E W Gordon-Hall, Royal Tank Regiment in the course of his visit the Middle East theatre of operations, Feb 1941-Apr 1941 on Italian tanks used in the Cyrenaica, Libya campaign, 1940-1941. 11pp

Report by Maj E W Gordon-Hall, Royal Tank Regiment on a questionnaire for armoured units issued by the Directorate of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, as part of his visit the Middle East theatre of operations, Feb 1941-Apr 1941, following the Cyrenaica, Libya campaign, 1940-1941. 5pp