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Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to an interview between Stern and Sir George Henry Gater, Secretary of the Ministry of Supply, scheduled for 16 Aug 1940 and discussions about the proposal to design an amphibious tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply advising him of the subjects to be discussed at a meeting between them scheduled for 3 Jul 1940, relating in general to armour plate for tank construction. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to proposals to design an amphibious tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to trials by the Admiralty of six-pounder capped solid shot against three inch cemented armour plates. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply containing a 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 and that a grant of £100,000 be authorised for the production of a pilot model. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply on the need for close contacts between those responsible for and those with knowledge of tank design and expressing a lack of confidence in the existing Tank Board. 1p

Letter from Stern in Paris, France, to Capt Norman Edward Holden, Deputy Comissioner, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, containing his initial impressions of the problems involved in the implementation of the Anglo-American Agreement on tank production. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt Norman Edward Holden, Deputy Comissioner, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions on the mock-up of the Liberty (Mark VIII) Tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Capt T L Squires, Section Director, Factory, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, Anglo-American Commission announcing his intention shortly to visit the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 1p

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Christopher Addison, Minister of Munitions, submitting the names of Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, and Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire for a financial award in return for their services in the development of the tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply advising him of the destination for despatch of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter concerning the gun for the US Heavy Tank T1. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, thanking him for his attention to the matter of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply requesting that he be present at a trial of the TOG 2* tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 12 Dec 1941. 1p

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of draft minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, held on 31 Dec 1942 at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London to discuss the fitting of the existing 17 pounder mounting, breech ring and mechanism of the TOG 2 tank with an alternative Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc barrel. 1p

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, commending the work of Lt Walter Gordon Wilson, Royal Naval Air Service, and William Ashbee Tritton, of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire on the design and construction of the tank and recommending that both should receive special financial remuneration. 2p

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, reporting the demonstration of the mock-up of the TOG 1 tank to officers of the British and French Armies, including Lt Gen Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, War Office, at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 29 Feb 1940 ['TOG' stood for The Old Gang, the Special Vehicle Development Committee's nickname for themselves]. 2pp

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, deploring the neglect of his proposal to produce a thousand new tanks in 1941 and drawing an analogy with the position in 1917, when the War Office had informed the Ministry of Munitions that they required no more tanks. 1p

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, detailing the materials required for completing the pilot models of the TOG tanks. 1p