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Reference code
STERN 2/4/110
Title
Notes on a meeting, 16 Aug 1940, about the poor progress of tank development
Date(s)
- 1940 Aug 16 (Creation)
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Item
Extent
3pp
Scope and content
Notes by Stern of a meeting with Sir George Henry Gater, Secretary of the Ministry of Supply and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply at which Stern expressed his concern at the state of mechanical warfare development including a lack of co-ordination between the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board and advocated that he should be made head of a Tank Research Department with a seat on a small reconstructed Tank Board. 3pp
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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.