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Note by Stern of a meeting with Sir William Scott Douglas, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply and Ralph Assheton, M P, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply at which Douglas asked for an estimate of the cost of finishing the TOG 2 tank and informed Stern that particulars of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply were to be added to the Ministry of Supply Directory. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board at which Lithgow proposed that trials of the TOG 2 tank at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire should take place in the first instance before the Tank Board or Tank Executive Committee who could then recommend a trial before the General Staff and the two men discussed matters relating to Stern's proposed appointment as Director General of Administration and Statistics, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board at which they discussed the previous unsatisfactory relations between them, the plans for the TOG 2 tank and the proposal that Stern should be appointed a Director General of Ministry of Supply and share responsibilty for tank development with James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply. 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

Note by Stern of a meeting with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, at which it was agreed that it was necessary to establish a new Tank Board and that there should be separation of departmental responsibility between tanks and mechanical transport and between tank production and design and development. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview between Stern and Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, at the War Office, London, at which they discussed the armament and turret of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

Note by Stern of a meeting with H M Ainsworth, Controller of Tank Development, Ministry of Supply at which Ainsworth produced a letter detailing his appointment as Director General of Design and Development, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Note by Stern of an interview with Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply at which Cunningham described the terms of reference of his enquiry into Stern's position at the Ministry of Supply held at the Ministry of Supply, Strand, London, 23 May 1942 and 28 May 1942 and asked for details of the work that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply had then in hand. 1p

Report of an interview between Stern and Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, at which they discussed the performance and future requirements of the British Army's tanks in the light of Pope's experience of armoured warfare in France, 1940. 2pp

Report of an interview between Stern and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to the proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should design an amphibious tank in conjunction with the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply, Stern's criticism of the Tank Board, a request by Stern to borrow a mock-up of the turret of the A20 Tank, the results of firing trials of six-pounder capped shot and the suggested development of a twin engined tank. 2pp

Note by Stern of a visit to J Olding and Company, Hatfield, Herfordshire to inspect the Sherman and other US tanks. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Mr Boulasse, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, in which Stern informed him that tests were taking place on the plates that week and he would keep him informed. 1p

Note by Stern of a conversation with Mr Sellar, Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, relating to a misunderstanding on the part of Morrison that the remit of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply was to produce drawings rather than prototype models. 1p

Note by Stern of an interview with US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK at which Green provided Stern with a drawing of a Side Seal Assembly made by the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company, Pontiac, Michigan US for use in heavy tank construction and informed Stern of arrangements during his absence abroad. 1p

Notes by Stern of a conversation with US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK in the course of which Stern noted that the decision to import US light tanks and medium tanks with a heavier armour by the end of 1943 marked the end of tank development in the UK and Green stated that trials of the US Heavy Tank T1 had shown that Stern had been right about electric transmission and the use of a heavy gun and heavier armour. 2pp

Note by Stern of an interview with Sir William Scott Douglas, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply, who informed him that particulars of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply had been added to the Ministry of Supply Directory. 1p

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, in the course of which Stern requested an interview relating to the offer made to him by the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply to become Director General of Administration and Statistics, Ministry of Supply and they discussed the nature of a report to be compiled by Stern on methods of keeping statistics of tank production. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board at which they discussed Stern's refusal to serve on a Sub-Committee to investigate the organisation and methods of procedure of the Production Department and the Design Department of the Ministry of Supply and the performance of the tanks then in production, the offer to Stern by the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply to become Director General of Administration and Statistics, Ministry of Supply, the provision of two drivers for the transport of the TOG 2 tank from the Works of Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire, for trials and the prospects for production of the TOG 2R tank. 1p

Report by Stern of an interview with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, at which Stern briefly explained the projects that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply then had on hand. 1p

Note by Stern of a meeting with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, at which it was agreed that it was necessary to establish a new Tank Board and that there should be separation of departmental responsibility between tanks and mechanical transport and between tank production and design and development. 1p