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STERN 2/6/25
Title
Copy memo by Commander Rowland Stokes-Rees, 23 Mar 1943, about reducing the weight of a tank gun in trials
Date(s)
- 1943 Mar 23 (Creation)
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Item
Extent
1p
Scope and content
Copy for Stern of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to D P & E O (W) relating to the turning off of two hundredweight from one of the two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns in 17 pounder tank mounting proved at Woolwich and arrangements for the subsequent firing trials of the lightened gun. 1p
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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.