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Authorisation from Monsieur Loisy, French Ministry of Munitions for Maj Gen the Rt Hon John Edward Bernard Seely, Deputy Minister of Munitions and Sir John Hunter, Director of Factory Construction, Ministry of Munitions, to visit the Renault Works, Billancourt, France. 1p

Letter of reference from Stern to Huntley Walker, on behalf of Lt J Rackham, Ministry of Munitions, for an appointment as works manager at Messrs Heenan and Froude 1p

Collection of photographic negatives relating to Stern's service during World War One including three glass photographic negative plates showing the 'Tritton' or 'Number 1 Lincoln machine'. 6 bundles

Collection of photographs of a visit by Stern and other British officials to the Renault Works, Billancourt, France to inspect French Renault tanks, probably Jul 1918. 25 photographs

Album of photographs showing a demonstration of the TOG 1 tank and a demonstration of the TOG 2 tank, probably adjacent to the Works of the manufacturers, William Foster and Son, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The album also contains a group photograph of Stern and other members of The Old Gang (members of and advisors to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply). 32 photographs

Collection of photographs of the TOG 2 tank, both under construction in the Workshops of the manufacturers, William Foster and Son, Lincoln, Lincolnshire and in the open, together with sketches of the tank. 14 photographs and 3 sketches

Folder of photographs of the US Medium Tank M4 A1; US Medium Tank M3 with British turret; Canadian RAM I Tank; Canadian Medium Tank M3 and US Medium Tank T6. 5 photographs

Collection of photographs, with one exception falling within a numbered range 149 to 225, relating mainly to the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division, Clement Talbot Works, Wormwood Scrubs but also including some personal photographs. The photographs show both the interior and exterior of the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division, Clement Talbot Works, Wormwood Scrubs including armoured cars, motorcycles, automobiles, offices, workshops, the men of 20 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service and images of Stern and other officers. 44 photographs

Collection of photographs relating to Stern's service during World War One, falling into two groups, first those within a numbered range, 218 to 243 relating to the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division, Clement Talbot Works, Wormwood Scrubs, showing armoured cars, lorries, motorcycles, wagons, ambulances, stores, guns and personnel; second, an unnumbered group showing Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars and lorries and the testing of experimental vehicles of the Admiralty Landships Committee, including Rolls Royce armoured car and armoured lorry equipped with 3 pounder gun, Diplock Pedrail, Pedrail hand machine with infantry shield, Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, Killen-Strait tractor, the 'Tritton' or 'Number 1 Lincoln machine' 'Little Willie', Tritton's trench crossing machine and 'Mother' (the prototype heavy tank with all round track). 68 photographs

Collection of photographs relating to Stern's service during World War One, mainly concerning the testing of experimental vehicles of the Admiralty Landships Committee, 1915-1916, including Diplock Pedrail, Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, the 'Tritton' or 'Number 1 Lincoln machine', 'Little Willie', 'Mother' (the prototype heavy tank with all round track), Whippet (Medium Mark A) tank, Liberty (Mark VIII) tank, French Schneider tank, Coventry Premier machine gun chassis, interior views of the workshops of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, an interior view of the workshops of the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, Oldbury, Birmingham, Warwickshire, some general images of tanks in action on the Western Front and views of the proposed Allied Tank Factory, Neuvy-Pailloux, Chateauroux, France after construction had been halted by the end of hostilities, Nov 1918. 44 photographs

Collection of photographs relating to Stern's service during World War One, falling into two groups, first those relating to the testing of experimental vehicles of the Admiralty Landships Committee, 1915-1916, including Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, a 105 horse power tractor, the 'Tritton' or 'Number 1 Lincoln machine', Tritton's trench crossing machine and 'Mother' (the prototype heavy tank with all round track); second and more numerous, British, Canadian and French official photographs covering all aspects of tank operations on the Western Front, 1916-1918. 112 photographs

Set of postcard photographs showing testing of single Bullock Creeping Grip tractor on behalf of the Admiralty Landships Committee, 1915. 16 photographs

Set of photographs showing testing of Bullock Creeping Grip tractors on behalf of the Admiralty Landships Committee, 1915. 16 photographs

Plan of Mark I tank, entitled 'General arrangement. Tank', produced by the drawing office of the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company Limited, Oldbury, Birmingham, Warwickshire, scale 1.5 inches to one foot.

Plan of a landship (tank) incorporating Diplock Pedrail crawler tracks, scale 0.75 inch to one foot, (based on data provided by Capt Murray Fraser Sueter, Director of Air Department, the Admiralty and laid before the Landships Committee for examination and discussion, 4 Mar 1915).

Plan entitled 'Experimental armoured Caterpillar', scale 1 inch to 1 foot. Endorsed 'Macfie's drawing', (Lt Macfie, Royal Naval Air Service, Armoured Car Division, Wormwood Scrubs).

Book by the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook entitled Politicians and the war (Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1928).

Collection of press cuttings including the victory despatch of FM Sir Douglas Haig, The Times, 8 Jan 1919; a group of cuttings relating to the Tanks Association; an article recounting the history of the development of tanks; an article on the causes of the German defeat in World War One, citing the tank (The Daily Telegraph, 7 Jan 1919); an article on the Whippet (Medium Mark A) tank (The Morning Post, 11 Jan 1919); a letter from George Fyfe, the Evening Standard, London to Stern and a proof of an interview with Stern, describing the opposition of the War Office to him during his service in World War One, including an account of the way in which an order by the War Office to hand over the plans of the tank to Russia in 1916 was evaded by the substitution of a spoof drawing, which Stern was convinced subsequently fell into the hands of the German General Staff and a cutting from Popular Science Monthly containing illustrated proposals for a giant three wheeled war machine.