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Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, explaining the reasons for the order of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to J Cuthill, Messrs Oilwell Engineering Limited, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, Cheshire asking him to speed production of two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun barrels and muzzle brakes for tank mounting. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern suggesting that he be coopted officially onto the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating personal details of his involvement in Canada. 2pp

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, describing his interest in the Burlington Steel Company, Hamilton, Canada. 4pp

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to the expression of support of Maj Gen Alexander Hugh Gatehouse for the continuance of the TOG 3 tank project and the enclosure of a footnote by Stokes-Rees to a paper by himself entitled 'Tank and anti-tank weapons, 1943' containing proposals for the armament of tanks. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern advising him to see M I 10's Intelligence Summary number 84 of 15 Aug 1942. 1p

Airmail letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, containing a pessimistic view of his new appointment. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to his role in Canada, aspects of Canadian politics and relations between Canada and the UK. 5pp

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a letter from himself to Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, explaining the reasons for the order of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Airmail letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, detailing his enjoyment of the social aspects of his appointment, but expressing his frustration at a lack of intellectual progress. 1p

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

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the armament of the US Heavy Tank T1 and the German Panzer Mark IV tank. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the design of a light and heavy 3 inch recoilless gun. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to his appointment as honorary member of the Post War Planning and Reconstruction Group of Industrialists in Canada. 2pp

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the enclosure of a memorandum by Stokes-Rees to Canadian Military Headquarters, 15 Dec 1942 on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks, which he thought would be of relevance to the armament of TOG tanks. 1p

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, about an inspection of a German Panzer Mark IV tank. 1p

Letter from Mrs D J McFlinn to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a message from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada. 1p

Letter from Dugald Clerk, consulting engineer, to the Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, Chairman, C A Parsons and Company, Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, approving the design of the Ricardo engine, (later used in tank Mark V). 1p

Letter from E C Hannen, of Holland, Hannen and Cubitts Limited, to Stern, in response to a letter from Sir John Hunter, Director of Factory Construction, Ministry of Munitions, relating to the proposal that the company withdraw from the contract to construct the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 1p