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

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

Note by Stern of a remark by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply that the question of a Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II gun for the TOG 2 tank had been put in order. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone message from J Reade, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, explaining that he would not be able to attend the showing of a film of the TOG 1 tank at the Ministry of Supply on 14 Oct 1940, together with the suggestion that the showing should go ahead anyway for the benefit of the other senior members of the Minstry of Supply who had been invited. 1p

Note by Stern on a conversation with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office and James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, who stated that the General Staff while satisfied with a tank trench crossing capacity of 8 feet would prefer an increase to 10 feet. 1p

Note submitted by US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK to US Gen D H Pratt, North American Bureau, London relating to the supply of drawings of the suspension of the US Heavy Tank T1. 1p

Note of a telephone message from T Chaning Pearce, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Ministry of Supply, indicating that the Minister was unable to see Stern, because responsibilty for Stern's position lay with the Ministry of Production. 1p

Note of a telephone conversation between Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Mr Chaning Pearce, Ministry of Supply stating that the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply was considering Stern's letter to him of 10 Jun 1942, in which he pointed out that following the enquiry of Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply, into Stern's position at the Ministry of Supply held at the Ministry of Supply, Strand, London, 23 May 1942 and 28 May 1942, his work was at a standstill and no information was being passed to him at that time. The note further states that the minister intended to refer the matter to Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Note by Stern relating to a telephone request to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, to allow the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to borrow an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) for twenty four hours for testing at the works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

Report, passed to Stern by US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK on the inferior performance in manoeuvres of the Infantry Tank Mark IV compared with the Infantry Tank Mark II, Infantry Tank Mark III and Cruiser Tank Mark V. 1p

Note by R H Adey, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to J Reade, Ministry of Supply, confirming that Stern was to show a film of the TOG 1 tank to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply at the Ministry of Supply on 14 Oct 1940. 1p

Note by Stern of a demonstration at Lincoln Lincolnshire of the TOG 2 tank attended by Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office. 1p

Note by Stern on a statement made in conversation by Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War that shells of the 6 pounder gun had disintegrated when the velocity was raised to 2700 feet per second. 1p

Cover note to Maj Gen the Rt Hon John Edward Bernard Seely, Deputy Minister of Munitions, relating to a copy of an arrangement between the Supply and Finance Department. 1p

Cover note to Col Buzzard, British Section, Supreme War Council, Versailles, relating to correspondence with Maj A H Wood, Area Commandant, Candas, France, British Expeditionary Force (B E F), France. 1p

Cover note to Col Buzzard, British Section, Supreme War Council, Versailles, France, relating to correspondence concerning the allocation of ten Renault tanks to England. 1p

Telegraph message providing authority for the passes of Stern and his party to remain valid until 21 Apr 1917. 1p

Cover note from the Munitions Inventions Department, Ministry of Munitions, to J A Barlow, on alterations to the minutes of the inventions discussion. 1p

Note of distribution of report by George Watson, for the Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, Sep 1917, 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. 1p

Notice of the official and private addresses in England of Le Marquis de Chasseloup Laubat, French Commission in England, Bureau Interallié des Cuirassés Terrestres, (Inter-Allied Tank Bureau). 1p