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Report by Lt R Minton-Taylor, Anglo-American Commission, describing the accommodation requirements for the civilian workforce at the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France and pointing out that the sort of arrangements made for troops would not be suitable for civilians. 1p

Report by Lt Col Clare Brayton Bouchier, Assistant Director, Tank Supply Department, Ministry of Supply on a memorandum from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, listing considerations for tank design, Jan 1941. 1p

Two copies of a report by George Watson, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, Ministry of Munitions setting out his view of the problems with existing tank design, from personal observation at the British front in France and Belgium, and making recommendations for improvements. 4pp

Report by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply of a meeting to finalise the design of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in a 17 pounder mounting. 2pp

Report by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply on the new design of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch gun for mounting in a tank. 1p

Report by C J Bartlett, Vauxhall Company, Luton Bedfordshire on a memorandum from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, listing considerations for tank design, Jan 1941. 1p

Report of design considerations and detailed specification of the TOG 1 tank. 2pp

Receipt to US Lt Col James A Drain, US Commissioner, Anglo-American Commission, for 40 French francs and two £1 notes. 1p

Tender from Donald W Douglas, President, Douglas Aircraft Company to Air Cdre J G Weir and members of the British Air Ministry Mission, Washington DC, US for the supply of one hundred, one hundred and fifty and two hundred B-18 bombers. 5pp

Handbook: 'Ministry of Munitions of War. List of staff and distribution of duties', uncorrected proof

Programme for a demonstration by 1 Canadian Army of operations involving flame throwers, wireless, tanks and other military vehicles before Gen Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Aldershot Area on 7 May 1942, with appendices on instructions to spectators, programme of detailed timings, specification of the Canadian Scout Car and Canadian Recce Car, description of Ronson equipped flame throwing carrriers and comparison of British and Canadian 33 and number 9 wireless sets. 5pp

Copy for Stern of a programme for a demonstration by 1 Canadian Army of operations involving flame throwers, wireless, tanks and other military vehicles before Gen Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Aldershot Area on 7 May 1942, with Appendix A describing 'Snake', a method of detonating a path through a field of Mark IV mines using a 3 inch continuous Bangalore Torpedo and a 'Ram' tank. 3pp

Programme of Ministry of Munitions demonstration of experimental tanks, 3 Mar 1917, including tabulated data, diagrams and descriptions of the standard Mark IV tank, Tritton Chaser, Williams-Janney Hydraulic, Wilson Epicyclic, Daimler Petrol-Electric, British Westinghouse Petrol-Electric, Wilkins's Multiple Clutch and Gun-carrying Machine. 8 copies

Printed, bound volume entitled 'Tanks. Index of parts', containing instructions for the ordering of spare parts for tanks, (Waterlow Brothers and Layton Limited, London).

Printed diary in booklet form produced by the School of Tank Technology, Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset illustrating tanks of World War Two.

Book by the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook entitled Politicians and the war (Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1928).

Plan entitled 'Experimental armoured Caterpillar', scale 1 inch to 1 foot. Endorsed 'Macfie's drawing', (Lt Macfie, Royal Naval Air Service, Armoured Car Division, Wormwood Scrubs).

Plan of a landship (tank) incorporating Diplock Pedrail crawler tracks, scale 0.75 inch to one foot, (based on data provided by Capt Murray Fraser Sueter, Director of Air Department, the Admiralty and laid before the Landships Committee for examination and discussion, 4 Mar 1915).

Plan of Mark I tank, entitled 'General arrangement. Tank', produced by the drawing office of the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company Limited, Oldbury, Birmingham, Warwickshire, scale 1.5 inches to one foot.

Set of postcard photographs showing testing of single Bullock Creeping Grip tractor on behalf of the Admiralty Landships Committee, 1915. 16 photographs