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Letter from Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence describing and enclosing a specification of the TOG2R tank and suggesting that an order for several hundred be placed at once. 2pp

Letter from Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern regretting the decision to close down the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on 18 Feb 1943. 1p

Cover letter from Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a memorandum by himself making comments in response to Stern's memorandum of 6 Feb 1941, containing nine points about tank design, relating to mechanised warfare, mass production, simplification of design, ease of maintenance, vulnerability on the road, the use of wheeled vehicles, precise specification, variations in terrain, controlling demands for speed and the use of transporters. 1p

Letter from [Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty] to Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, General Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, communicating official resistance to making special mention of Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, in the House of Commons, but support for the award of financial remuneration to him and Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, on condition of assigning to the Government any claims in connection with their work on the development of the tank. 1p

Cover letter from Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty, to Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, relating to a letter to Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers. 1p

Letter from Sir (William) Graham Greene, Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, to Stern, relating to the reorganisation of the Ministry of Munitions. 1p

Cover letter from Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty, to Stern, relating to a letter of 5 Aug 1915, to Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers, Consulting Engineer to the Landships Committee, concerning the construction of landships (tanks). 1p

Original of letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern proposing that Stern and the three other unofficial members of the Tank Board should form a Sub-Committee to investigate the organisation and methods of procedure of the Production and Design Departments of the Ministry of Supply and the performance of the tanks then in production. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, making arrangements 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. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern thanking him for his letter of 18 Feb 1942 explaining his argument about the use in tanks of cemented armour plate and machineable quality armour plate when attacked by capped or uncapped shot. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, asking him to clarify his statement contained in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply of 18 Jun 1942, that fifty TOG 2 tanks with 3 inch anti-aircraft guns could be produced by early Spring 1942, provided they had proper priority. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern promising to discuss at a forthcoming meeting of the Tank Board the points made by Stern in a letter of 16 May 1941, relating to the question of tank tracks. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, in reply to a letter from him of 19 Jun 1941, pointing out that he had already advised him that Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office was opposed to the suggestion that two officers should be detailed to accompany the TOG 2 tank while in transit between the Works of Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire and the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire, for trials. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, relating to the reconstitution of the Tank Board by the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply and paying a tribute to Stern's efforts on behalf of tank development. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, promising to raise questions before the Tank Board and responding to points made by Stern relating to tank tracks and the armour plate to be used in the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV), contained in his letter of 30 Jan 1941. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, in reply to his letter of 3 Jun 1942, noting that Stern had written to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply in similar terms and indicating that he felt it was unnecessary to offer further comment. 1p

Letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, informing him in reply to his request to become a member of the Executive Committee of the Tank Board contained in a letter of 4 Jul 1941, that he could take no action in the light of the review by the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply of the functions of the Tank Board and the Executive Committee of the Tank Board. 1p

Letter from Sir John Hunter, Director of Factory Construction, Ministry of Munitions, to Sir Arthur McDougal Duckham, Member of Council, Ministry of Munitions, reporting his decision to place J S Sangster, Ministry of Munitions in charge of construction at the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 1p

Letter from Sir John Hunter, Director of Factory Construction, Ministry of Munitions, to Sir Charles (Edward) Ellis, Representative of the Ministry of Munitions, in Paris, France, detailing the appointment of J S Sangster, Ministry of Munitions, to superintend construction at the site of the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 2pp

Letter from Sir John Hunter, Administrator of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry, Department of Works and Buildings, to Stern on the relative roles of J S Sangster, Ministry of Munitions and Capt Freeman, Engineer, Factory Department, Ministry of Munitions. 1p