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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 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 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

Unofficial report entitled 'The tactical employment of tanks in 1918', by Col John Frederick Charles Fuller. 32pp

Report by Stern, entitled 'Heavily Armed Tanks', containing a comparison between the US Heavy Tank T1 and the TOG 3 tank. 5pp

Report entitled 'Land battleships', detailing visits by Maj Thomas Gerard Hetherington, Transport Officer, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service and Stern to the Rolls Royce Company, Derby, Derbyshire and to William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 2pp

Official report for the use of the Cabinet by the Right Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Minister of Munitions, entitled 'Mechanical power in the offensive.' 6pp

Report entitled 'Notes on present position of tanks' relating to the Infantry Tank Mark IV (Churchill), the Infantry Tank Mark II (Matilda), the Infantry Tank Mark III (Vickers Valentine), the Cruiser Tank Mark V (Covenanter), the Cruiser Tank Mark VI (Crusader) and the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. The report bears no direct indication of authorship but is grouped with other reports by Ricardo and Company (1927) Limited. 18pp

Official report (by Lt Col Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence) entitled 'Notes on the employment of "tanks"'. 8pp

Official report entitled '"Tank" trial', relating to the trials of the prototype heavy tank with all round track, (known as 'Mother'), at Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, including specifications, notes on steel plate, programme of trials and plan. 3 copies

Report by Lt Gen Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel entitled 'The gun in the tank, 1942', discussing the use of armament in tanks. 1p

Official report entitled War-time tank production. Reports by the Select Committee on National Expenditure and the replies to those reports by the Government of the day. (HMSO, London, 1946).

Report by Maj E W Gordon-Hall, Royal Tank Regiment in the course of his visit the Middle East theatre of operations, Feb 1941-Apr 1941 on Italian anti-tank devices used in the Cyrenaica, Libya campaign, 1940-1941. 17pp

Report by Maj E W Gordon-Hall, Royal Tank Regiment on replies to a questionnaire for armoured units issued by the Ministry of Supply as part of his visit the Middle East theatre of operations, Feb 1941-Apr 1941, following the Cyrenaica, Libya campaign, 1940-1941. 6pp

Progress report by Lt Walter Gordon Wilson, Royal Naval Air Service, on tests on the Bullock Caterpillar tractors at Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 2pp

Bound volume used as a visitors' book to record the signatures of persons inspecting the TOG 1 tank, Mar-Apr 1940.

Menu card of dinner attended by Stern bearing the signatures of those present on the reverse. 1p

Sketch by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply of Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder gun mounting of the TOG 2 tank. 1p

Specification DS-234G of the B-18G bomber of the Douglas Aircraft Company Incorporated, Santa Monica, California, US. 1 booklet

Provisional outline specification of the TOG 2 tank. 2pp