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Two extracts made by Stern from first, the charter of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply received from Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, 13 Aug 1941, to the effect that the Committee were entitled to use the full technical resources of Ministry of Supply by arrangemant with the appropriate departmental heads and second, a letter from Stern to Lucas of 27 Feb 1942 listing seven research proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Copy for Stern of a letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire relating to the manufacture of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a letter from Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office proposing that the Tank Board inspect the TOG 2 tank and its records as soon as its trials at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire were completed. 2pp

Copy 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 Department and the Design Department of the Ministry of Supply and the performance of the tanks then in production. 1p

Typescript copy of a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply describing the plans for the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

Copy for Stern of a letter from US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK to Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply relating to types of gearbox for use in tanks. 1p

Copy of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Canadian Military Headquarters for Stern containing his observations on a paper written by Maj Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to D P & E O (W) relating to the turning off of two hundredweight from one of the two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns in 17 pounder tank mounting proved at Woolwich and arrangements for the subsequent firing trials of the lightened gun. 1p

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board, containing a technical design specification of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for 17 pounder tank mounting and note by the Ordnance Board of agreement with the design. 2pp

Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Secretary, the Ordnance Board on the firing trials of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun in 17 pounder tank mounting, including the tabulated results of buffer pressure diagrams. 2pp

Copy for Stern of memoranda from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply placing an order for two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Copies of two memoranda between Maj Somerset J Saunderson, Liaison Officer with Allied Military Authorities, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, Deputy Commissioner, London, Anglo-American Commission and Stern, concerning the refusal of the Director General of the Tank Corps (Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper) to issue copies of the report on the Battle of Cambrai, Western Front, 1917, to the Anglo-American Commission. 1p

Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design concerning the supply of a drawing of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design and the Ordnance Board concerning the development of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch Tank and Anti-Tank gun. 1p

Copy of cable (without any indication of sender or addressee) containing details of specification and cost of two hundred B-18 bombers. 1p

Copies of internal minutes of the Department of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, relating to the proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should be referred directly to the Vickers Company in the light of the abandonment by the General Staff of the six pounder gun for use in the Infantry Tank Mark II. 1p

Copies of internal minutes of the Department of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, relating to the proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should be referred directly to the Vickers Company in the light of the abandonment by the General Staff of the six pounder gun for use in the Infantry Tank Mark II. 1p

Extract from document T B Number 57 (41), suggesting that a tank suitable to carry a six pounder gun should be developed from the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV). 1p

Roll of 16 millimetre acetate film with soundtrack produced by the BBC Television Film Unit entitled 'First hand - tanks (sequences)', relating mainly to World War One tanks and consisting of seven separate sequences, including film of a Mark I tank at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset, showing exterior shrapnel damage, compartment, ammunition storage, 6 pounder gun and engine, with commentary; the prototype tank, 'Little Willie', (manufactured by William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1915) at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset, with commentary; a description of tank operations on the Western Front, 1917-1918; footage of Stern taken at his home at Barham Court, Kent in 1957, in which he describes his difficulties with the War Office while engaged in pioneering work on the development of tanks with the Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, 1916-1917, his meeting with the Right Hon David Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions at which an order was placed for one thousand tanks, Sep 1916, the cancellation of that order by the Army Council, his refusal to cancel the order, his order for Ricardo engines and his meeting with the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Minister of Munitions, Oct 1917, which culminated in his dismissal; a description of training with Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps 1916-1917. The film was forwarded to Stern with a covering letter from the BBC Film Librarian, 11 Dec 1957. Duration 10 minutes.

Roll of 16 millimetre film, a copy made by the Imperial War Museum of a 35 millimetre nitrate film. The film shows trials of Medium Mark C (Hornet) tanks on the testing ground at the works of the manufacturers, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The prototype tank 'Little Willie' (built in 1915) can be seen standing in the background. There is also a sequence showing the interior of the workshops of William Foster and Company. Duration 10 minutes.