Showing 1262 results

Letter from Maj Gen Sir John Edward Capper, Director General of the Tank Corps, to Stern, requesting that he inform the French Government that sixteen of the twenty Renault tanks due to be supplied to the British Army should be suitable for a machine gun and the other four should be armed with a light gun. 1p

Letter from Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern, asking if he intended to raise the question of track design and production at the next meeting of the Tank Board. 1p

Letter from Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern containing comments on the points raised in a memorandum by Stern of Jan 1941 listing considerations for tank design. 2pp

Letter from Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern containing comments on the points raised in a memorandum by Stern of Jan 1941 listing considerations for tank design. 1p

Letter from Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern, relating to arrangements for Stern to visit Headquarters, 1 Army Tank Brigade to see the Infantry Tank Mark II in service with a fighting unit. 1p

Letter from 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, to Capt Norman Edward Holden, Deputy Comissioner, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, Controller, Anglo-American Commission, concerning passes. 1p

Letter from Maurice E Turner to Stern relating to the approaching maturity of an unspecified mortgage. 2pp

Letter from Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern on the electric transmission of the US Heavy Tank T1 in the light of US Army Ordnance Specification RE2847 and on a report by S Potter, English Electric Company, London on the US Heavy Tank T1 in the light of his experience with electric transmission in the tanks of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 4pp

Letter from O A R Murray, the Admiralty, to Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers, Consulting Engineer to the Landships Committee, concerning the termination of his employment on the design and construction of landships (tanks). 1p

Letter from O A R Murray, the Admiralty, to Col Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, Royal Engineers, confirming his appointment as Honorary Advisor to the Admiralty Landships committee. 1p

Letter from Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply to Stern congratulating him on the demonstration of the TOG 2 tank and informing him that the tank had now passed officially into Lucas's hands for its formal trials at the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire and evaluation of its usefulness. 1p

Letter from Capt the Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production to Stern informing him of the proposal that heavy tanks should in future be of US production and of the opinions of Harry Ralph Ricardo, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply concerning the Ricardo Diesel 4 stroke H engine and the conversion of the meteor engine to compression ignition. 1p

Letter from Oswald Allen to Stern, proposing to contact him with news immediately upon his return from Versailles, France. 1p

Letter from Percy Anderson, Ministry of Munitions, to Stern, notifying him of a conference of the General Staff at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 30 Apr 1917. 1p

Letter from the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Prime Minister to Stern informing him of the award of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 1p

Letter from John Frederick Peck, Professor of Hydraulics, Loughborough College Scientific Society to Stern, outlining the details of hydraulic transmissions for use in tanks with engines in excess of 300 horse power which he wished to obtain from US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK in response to Green's offer to provide the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply with information about US heavy tank production. 2pp

Letter from Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to enclosured letter from Maj Gen Langley Browning, General Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery Training Establishments to Stern. 1p

Letter from Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, relating to the enclosure of a schedule for a forthcoming meeting. 1p

Letter from Ronald G Troup, formerly Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern, communicating personal news, but also containing a criticism reported to him of the performance of the Churchill (Infantry Tank Mark IV) in the campaign in Normandy, France. 4pp

Letter from S Potter, English Electric Company, London to Stern relating to the return of three folders each containing a copy of the General Electric specification of the US Heavy Tank T1. 1p