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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 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 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 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 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

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, (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

Report by mechanical engineer Henry Edward Merritt for Stern, recommending an all-mechanical transmission for the TOG tank. 1p

Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 10pp

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 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

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 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

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 by Stern containing recommendations for the design of an amphibious tank. 7pp

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 by J H Crang and Company, Toronto, Canada describing the financial and industrial status of the Burlington Steel Company, Hamilton, Canada. 2pp

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 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 of a visit by Stern and other representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, to see a running trial of the A20 Tank and to inspect a wooden mock-up of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV). 1p