Item STERN 1/20/3 - Papers, chiefly 1918-1919, relating to Stern's book, Tanks, 1914-1918: the log-book of a pioneer

File of papers entitled 'Anecdotes', including a copy of a letter from Ashmead Bartlett to Stern, 5 Mar 1918, describing his visit to a destroyed tank, HMS CORUNNA, during the Battle of the Somme in Oct 1916, which was subsequently reproduced as Appendix I of Stern's book, Tanks 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919), a memorandum from F Skeens, Director of Armament, Mechanical Warfare Department, Ministry of Munitions to Lt Anderson, Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, defining the term 'sponson' (a projecting gun platform), 10 Jan 1919, a letter from R H Brackenbury, Pedrail Transport Limited, London to Stern, describing the Company's links with the Landships Committee, Admiralty in 1915, 26 Feb 1919, other papers relating to the composition of Stern's book, an undated memorandum by Stern of the circumstances of his invitation by the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin Minister of Supply to become involved in mechanical warfare in 1939 and a copy bearing manuscript emendations by Stern of a set of notes by Maj A L T Sassoon, School of Tank Technology, Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset about the history of the TOG tanks of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1954.