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Annex 61 of the transcript of 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, recording a submission by Stern that, although not a qualified engineer, his experience of the development of tanks from 1915 to 1918 and his work on a heavy tank with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1942 constituted a better training for such development than that of an engineer without experience of tanks. 1p

Note by Stern of the persons present at an interview between himself and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply at the House of Commons, 21 May 1940. 1p

Note stating that the barrels of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns for tank mounting were being supplied complete with their own rings and mechanisms. 1p

Report by John Frederick Peck, Professor of Hydraulics, Loughborough College Scientific Society, Consultant to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, entitled 'Hydraulic transmission for TOG 1/A'. 3pp

Manuscript note by Stern of Canadian officials concerned with tank production and the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Note [by Stern] of request made by Ingénieur-Général Desmazieres at the Atelier Construction de Rueil, France, on 27 Nov 1939, to the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939 for types of armour plate. 1p

Reply to conference minute recording acceptance of the offer of Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers, to be Honorary Advisor to the Technical Committee on Landships. 1p

Note of of a visit by Lt Col F F Fulton, General Staff Officer Grade 1, Staff Duties (Technical) Branch, Canadian Military Headquarters, London and Canadian Maj Johnson to the Works of Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to inspect the torsion bars of the suspension being fitted to the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Summary of visit of inspection by the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Minster of Munitions and the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Headquarters, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), Wormwood Scrubs, 30 Jun 1915. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone message from Lt Col Carl Richard Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the striking velocity and armour penetration of the twenty-five pounder gun. 1p

Note of a meeting at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply attended by Stern, Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, Brig N E Rodger, Personal Assistant to Lt Gen Hon Andrew George Latta McNaughton, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 1 Canadian Army and Lt Col F F Fulton, General Staff Officer Grade 1, Staff Duties (Technical) Branch, Canadian Military Headquarters, London to discuss the TOG 2R and TOG 3 tanks. 1p

Note by Stern of a meeting with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board and James G Weir, prospective Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, at which Stern was asked to provide Weir with assistance in his new post. 1p

Report by Stern of a meeting with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office at the War Office, attended by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Maj Oswald Emerson Chapman, T P (Armour) at which they discussed machineable quality, carburised and cemented armour plate for use in tanks in the light of the penetration of the front plate of the Infantry Tank Mark II, even by the anti-tank rifle, in the campaign in North Africa and the penetrating power of types of guns for use in tanks. 1p

Note by Stern of a meeting with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, Sir William Edward Rootes, Chairman, Supply Council, Ministry of Supply and Sir William Scott Douglas, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply, at which the Minister authorised the necessary finance for the completion of the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Notes of a meeting between representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, the Armaments Design and Tank Design Departments, Ministry of Supply and Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, held at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London, to discuss the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun recoil system for tanks, the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder gun and turret for the TOG 2 tank and the new Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

Note by Stern on a visit to Department of Tank Design, Wood Lee, Egham, Surrey to meet Col Watson, Ministry of Supply who was to act as Liaison Officer with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Maj H Keays, Tank Design Department, Ministry of Supply, with whom he discussed the gun mounting and turret of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

Note by Stern of an interview with Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply and Col Blagden, Ministry of Supply, relating to the design and armament of the turret of the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

Report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply and Sir William Edward Rootes, Chairman, Supply Council, Ministry of Supply, at which Stern expressed concern that there was no person on the Anglo-American Commission who had knowledge of heavy tanks and no person on the Tank Board who was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 3pp

Note of a meeting between Stern and representatives of Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the English Electric Company to view plans and (together with representatives of the War Office and the Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Company Limited) to see films of the US Heavy Tank T1. 1p

Notes of a meeting involving representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply, to discuss the design of an amphibious tank. 1p