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Tank Museum guides produced by the Royal Armoured Corps School, Bovington, Dorset, parts 1-4. 4 booklets

Booklet entitled Twenty-five thousand tanks, a record of the Royal Armoured Corps in World War Two, distributed by The Tanks Victory Club, London, (St Clements Press, 1945).

Booklet entitled The scandal of the British tanks. A demand for an enquiry, by Ivor Halstead, containing criticism of the performance in the field of the British Army's tanks and of those responsible for tank development, and an account of the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and calling for an enquiry into the full facts about British tank production, 1939-1943, including an appendix containing quotations from Hansard, Jul 1942-Nov 1943, (the Fanfare Press, London, 1943). 3 copies

Booklet entitled Tanks Association (Coxhead and Cooper, London, 1920), containing a list of members of the Tank Association.

Booklet entitled Destruction of an army. The first campaign in Libya, Sept 1940-Feb 1941.(Harrison and Sons, London for HMSO, 1941).

Booklet entitled British tanks. A paper read by Sir Eustace H Tennyson d'Eyncourt, KCB (Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty) at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Bournemouth, September 10 1919, (Harrison and Sons, London, 1919). Reprinted from Engineering, 12 and 19 Sep 1919.

Booklet entitled A speech by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons (The Baynard Press, 1940).

Booklet prepared by the Department of the Chief Inspector of Mechanisation, Chislehurst, Kent, containing specifications and illustrations of armoured fighting vehicles, including Cruiser Tanks, Infantry Tanks and armoured cars.

Book entitled Tanks 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer, by Stern (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919).

Letter signed only 'May', 14 Grosvenor Street, London to Stern communicating the writer's intention to resign from the Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, Ministry of Munitions, describing Stern's departure from the Department as a capricious act of wanton injustice and criticising Sir (Arthur) McDougal Duckham, Member of Council, Ministry of Munitions. 3pp

Notice from Stern announcing the appointment by the Anglo-American Commissioners of Frederick Thomas Hopkinson as Controller of the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 1p

Second draft of a narrative by Stern of senior personnel and organisational changes in the Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, Sep 1939 to Sep 1942. 4pp

Agenda of an Army Council conference on tanks policy, chaired by the Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Maj Gen Charles Harington Harington) and held in Room 219, War Office, London, 26 Jun 1918. 1p

Summary account by Stern of his service between 24 Apr 1918 and 8 May 1918, entitled 'Diary from April to May 1918', including a note of a discussion with French Gen Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain, concerning the importance of using tanks in large numbers. 4pp