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STERN 2/21/17
Title
Note on a meeting, 3 Apr 1941, on tank armour
Date(s)
- 1941 Apr 3 (Creation)
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1p
Scope and content
Report by Stern of a meeting with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office at the War Office, attended by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Maj Oswald Emerson Chapman, T P (Armour) at which they discussed machineable quality, carburised and cemented armour plate for use in tanks in the light of the penetration of the front plate of the Infantry Tank Mark II, even by the anti-tank rifle, in the campaign in North Africa and the penetrating power of types of guns for use in tanks. 1p
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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.