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Note from Stern's Private Secretary to A A Part, Private Secretary of the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, confirming that Stern would attend a meeting with Morrison in early Sep 1940. 1p

Note by Stern of a conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply concerning a second gun for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Cover note to [Lt Col W Dally] Jones, Senior Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, relating to the return of a proof of a secret document. 1p

Report by Stern of interviews with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office and his assistant, Col Bond relating to the design, turret, speed and armament of the TOG 2 and TOG 2A tanks. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the relative armour penetration of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc and the 17 pounder guns. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office relating to the furnishing of the tanks of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including mention by Pope of the need for additional water tanks and appropriate oil and sand filters for tanks in use in desert warfare. 1p

Note of a conversation between Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and R Tippetts, Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Ministry of Supply in which Troup pointed out that the Minister had promised a decision on whether to continue funding the TOG 3 tank project in his letter to Stern of 7 Jul 1942 and an outline specification for the tank had been submitted on 10 Mar 1942. 1p

Note by R H Addiscott, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply of a telephone message from the Secretary to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty indicating that Churchill was temporarily too busy to offer Stern an interview. 1p

Notes by Stern on an interviews with the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply and William Edward Rootes, Supply Council, Ministry of Supply at which Stern expressed his concern at the division of responsibility for tank design at the Ministry of Supply and made proposals about the structure of the Tank Board and the type of tanks required by the Army. 1p

Note by Stern on the visit of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, where they saw a wooden mock-up of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) and C J Bartlett, Vauxhall Company, Luton Bedfordshire commented that the company had had no experience in tank manufacture and had received no data from the Mechanisation Board, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Note of a telephone message from the staff captain of Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern's office suggesting a time for his visit to Woolwich on 3 Feb 1941 with Stern. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, in which Stern asked Pope which day after 5 Jul 1941, would suit him for the demonstration of the TOG 2 tank at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire. 1p

Note of telephone message from R Tippetts, Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Ministry of Supply indicating that a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply of 22 Jul 1942, containing a request for the provision of finance for the TOG 3 tank project had been received and was being given attention. 1p

Note of a telephone message from the staff captain of Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern's office indicating that Pope would be able to visit Woolwich on 3 Feb 1941 with Stern and asking them to arrange a time. 1p

Note by Stern of a conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply concerning the supply of drawings of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

Note by Stern of a meeting with Claude Dixon Gibb, Director General Weapons and Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply and Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, relating to the fitting of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun into the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II gun. 1p

Note of of a telephone message from the Secretary to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty stating that Churchill was forced was to defer an interview with Stern. 1p

Note by Stern of the need to make urgent arrangements for the visit of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Note by Stern of a conversation with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office in which Pope recommended that Stern contact the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire about obtaining service drivers for the TOG 2 tank and mentioned that he had informed Gen Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff that the TOG 2 tank would available to be viewed at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire by the beginning of Jul 1941. 1p

Note between R H Adey, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry and J Reade, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply varying the precise time of an appointment for Stern with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply on 17 Oct 1940. 1p