Subseries STERN 2/12 - Correspondence and memos, Jul 1941 - Oct 1942, relating to Stern's evidence, 4 Aug 1942, before the sub-committee of Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure

File of correspondence and memoranda relating to Stern's evidence before the Sub-Committee of Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure, 4 Aug 1942, including a memorandum by Stern criticising the planning and progress of tank development, together with copies of letters directed by Stern to successive Minsters of State for War and Ministers of Supply and to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, between 1940 and 1942 and a diary account of efforts made by Stern between 1939 and the disbanding of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply in Nov 1941, to secure the design and production of a heavy tank, Jul 1942; a memorandum by Stern headed 'Reasons for failure', criticising the absence of central tank design at the Ministry of Supply, the existing production of Matilda (Mark II Infantry), Valentine (Mark III Infantry) and Churchill (Mark IV Infantry) tanks and the proposed use of the Liberty engine in the Cruiser tank, Aug 1942 and correspondence between Stern and Sir George Ernest Schuster, M P, Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure, Aug-Oct 1942.