Report on tests of armour plating, 22 Apr 1915
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Report by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Royal Naval Air Service, on tests carried out at Woolwich on the resistance of armour plating to bullet penetration. 2pp
Report on tests of armour plating, 22 Apr 1915
Report by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Royal Naval Air Service, on tests carried out at Woolwich on the resistance of armour plating to bullet penetration. 2pp
Report on the B-18G bomber produced by the Douglas Aircraft Co, 3 May 1938
Report number 2063 on the performance of the B-18 G bomber of the Douglas Aircraft Company Incorporated, Santa Monica, California, US. 1 booklet
Report on the Burlington Steel Co, Canada, 14 Feb 1944
Report by J H Crang and Company, Toronto, Canada describing the financial and industrial status of the Burlington Steel Company, Hamilton, Canada. 2pp
Report on the design and specifications of the TOG1 tank and TOG 2 tank, 10 Jun 1940
Report by W Rigby William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, detailing the design considerations and specifications of both tanks. 2pp
Report on the design of an amphibious tank, 19 Aug 1940
Report by Stern containing recommendations for the design of an amphibious tank. 7pp
Report on the German Panzer Tank PZKW III, Jun 1942
Official report by the Experimental Department, the Associated Equipment Company Limited, Southall, Middlesex on an examination of the German Tank Type PZKW III on behalf of the Department of Tank Design, Wood Lee, Egham, Surrey.
Report on the steering of the US Heavy Tank T1, 19 Jun 1942
Report by J E Calverley, Chief Engineer and Manager, Traction Department, English Electric Company, London relating to the scheme adopted for the propulsion and steering of the US Heavy Tank T1. 3pp
Report on the TOG 1 tank, Mar 1940
Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply report on the TOG 1 tank, summarising design and proposed production policy for the 1941 Campaign. 2pp
Report on the US Heavy Tank T1, Apr 1942, produced by the English Electric Co
Report by S Potter, English Electric Company, London on the US Heavy Tank T1 with electric transmission subtitled 'Comments based on 12 months running experience with the British TOG experimental heavy tanks with electric transmission'. 5pp
Report on the US Heavy Tank T1, by the English Electric Co, 11 Mar 1942
Draft report by S Potter, English Electric Company, London on the US Heavy Tank T1 with electric transmission subtitled 'Comments based on 12 months running experience with the British TOG experimental heavy tanks with electric transmission'. 8pp
Report on TOG 2* tank steering experiments, 9 Mar 1944
Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 10pp
Report on TOG tank transmission, 27 Sep 1941, by Henry Merritt
Report by mechanical engineer Henry Edward Merritt for Stern, recommending an all-mechanical transmission for the TOG tank. 1p
Report, 12 Jul 1918, on the work still to be done on the Allied Tank Factory, Neuvy-Pailloux, France
Report, (no indication of authorship), referring to a meeting held on 6 Jul 1918, indicating the extent of the work required to prepare the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France for production. The report estimates Mar 1919 as a likely completion date, or the end of 1918, if two thousand militarised labour and emergency accommodation facilities were to be made available. 1p
Typescript report by Lt George K Field, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, entitled 'Report on Lemons wheel and rotating machine' (a self-propelled machine tested against barbed wire and trench emplacements and thought suitable only as a means of sending a form of high explosive into enemy trenches) 3pp
Report, 21 May 1940, relating to proposals for a Tank Board and to an order for tanks
Report of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, at the House of Commons at which Stern recommended the appointment of a Tank Board and raised the question of whether an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply would be placed if the pilot trial were a success. 1p
Report, 26 Nov 1942, on the reasons for a failure of the TOG 1A tank in testing
Report by John Frederick Peck, Professor of Hydraulics, Loughborough College Scientific Society, Consultant to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on the failure of the TOG 1A tank while reversing by means of a pivot turn, including an assessment of the cause of failure, suggested remedy and notes on the Lockheed controls. 1p
Report, 31 Aug 1918, on changes to the personnel of Allied organisations involved in tank production
Report of the Anglo-American Commissioners relating to the consolidation of the separate staffs of the Anglo-American Commission, the Factory Construction Department, Ministry of Munitions and the contractors, Messrs Holland and Hannen, through the appointment of Frederick Thomas Hopkinson, S Pearson and Son, contractors for public works, as Controller, Allied Tank Factory, Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 2pp
Report, 6 Oct 1941, on tests of an experimental tank turret
Report on firing trials carried out against the turret specially designed for the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, by Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bath, Somerset held at the Shoeburyness, Essex firing range on 2 Oct 1941. 1p
Report, 'Admiralty land-ships...', 28 May 1915, by Colonel Rookes Crompton
Report entitled 'Admiralty land-ships, progress report', from Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers, Consulting Engineer to the Landships Committee, to the Directorate of Naval Construction, the Admiralty, relating to the role of the various companies involved in supplying parts for landships (tanks) fitted with pedrail and creeper-grip Caterpillar tracks. 3pp
Report, 'Amphibious tank operations', Aug 1940
Report 1A entitled 'Amphibious tank operations', containing objectives and specifications for the design of an amphibious tank and discussed at a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply on 12 Jun 1940 1p