LHCMA: Stern catalogue, 2

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STERN: 2 Papers relating to Stern's service with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939-1943

STERN: 2/1/1-6 Bound volumes of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Jul-1943 Apr

STERN: 2/1/1 1939 Jul-1939 Oct

Bound volume of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the establishment of the Special Vehicle Development Committee of the Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, Army Council, War Office and Stern, relating to Stern's proposals for the construction of a special tank, Jul-Aug 1939; a letter from Maj Gen Alexander Elliott Davidson, Director of Mechanisation, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the allocation to Stern of a room and paid secretary at the Ministry of Supply, The Adelphi, London, 5 Sep,1939; the minutes of the first meeting of the Special Vehicle Department, Ministry of Supply, at which the proposal to build of a tank of 100 tons weight was approved, 18 Sep 1939; a note by Stern of a meeting with Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 26 Sep 1939 and General Staff memorandum R B M 17, containing an outline specification for a Super Heavy Tank (Land Battleship), 28 Sep 1939.

STERN: 2/1/2 1939 Oct-1940 Jun

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence and notes of meetings between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, Oct 1939-May 1940 and correspondence and notes of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, May 1940-Jun 1940; notes of a visit to Paris, Satory, near Versailles Rueil and Vincennes, France by Stern and other members of a Ministry of Supply mission including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to investigate the design, production and performance of French tanks, 25-30 Nov 1939; Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply memorandum relating to the design and production policy of the TOG 1 tank, 11 Mar 1940 and a memorandum by William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply relating to design considerations and specifications for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, 10 Jun 1940.

STERN: 2/1/3 1940 Jun-1940 Oct

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply and correspondence and minutes of meetings between the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, Minstry of Supply.

STERN: 2/1/4 1940 Oct-1941 Jul

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Stern and Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board; notes of a conversation between Stern and French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle on the future of tanks in war, 17 Dec 1940 and papers relating to the design and testing of the TOG 2 tank, including correspondence and notes of interviews with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office.

STERN: 2/1/5 1941 Jul-1942 Mar

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply, Jul 1941-Jan 1942 and correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, Feb 1942; a letter from Stern and other members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence and other members of the War Cabinet, following the notification of the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply that their services were no longer required by the Ministry of Supply, indicating their determination to carry on with their work, 14 Jan 1942 and papers relating to modifications of the TOG 1 tank, the continuing trials of the TOG 2 tank and proposals for the TOG 3 tank.

STERN: 2/1/6 1942 Apr 1-1943 Apr 19

Bound volume of correspondence and notes of interviews relating to Stern's chairmanship of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably papers relating to the continuing work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, involving making modifications to the TOG 2 tank; correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, Apr 1942-Apr 1943; correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence, Jul-Sep 1942 and papers relating to proposals for the TOG 3 tank.

STERN: 2/2/1-5 Bound volumes of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. Labelled 'Duplicate set', 1939 Jul-1943 Apr

STERN: 2/2/1 1939 Jul-1940 May

Bound volume of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the establishment of the Special Vehicle Development Committee of the Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, Army Council, War Office, Director General of Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply and Stern, relating to Stern's proposals for the construction of a special tank, Jul-Aug 1939; a letter from Maj Gen Alexander Elliott Davidson, Director of Mechanisation, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the allocation to Stern of a room and paid secretary at the Ministry of Supply, The Adelphi, London, 5 Sep,1939; the minutes of the first meeting of the Special Vehicle Department, Ministry of Supply, at which the proposal to build of a tank of 100 tons weight was approved, 18 Sep 1939; a note by Stern of a meeting with Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 26 Sep 1939; General Staff memorandum R B M 17, containing an outline specification for a Super Heavy Tank (Land Battleship), 28 Sep 1939; correspondence and notes of meetings between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, Oct 1939-May 1940; notes of a visit to Paris, Satory, near Versailles, Rueil and Vincennes, France by Stern and other members of a Ministry of Supply mission including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to investigate the design, production and performance of French tanks, 25-30 Nov 1939; Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply memorandum relating to the design and production policy of the TOG 1 tank, 11 Mar 1940 and correspondence and notes of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, May 1940. Part of 'Duplicate Set'.

STERN: 2/2/2 1940 May-1940 Oct

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply and correspondence and minutes of meetings between the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, Minstry of Supply. Part of 'Duplicate Set'.

STERN: 2/2/3 1940 Oct-1941 Jul

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Stern and Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board; notes of a conversation between Stern and French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle on the future of tanks in war, 17 Dec 1940 and papers relating to the design and testing of the TOG 2 tank, including correspondence and notes of interviews with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office. Part of 'Duplicate Set'.

STERN: 2/2/4 1941 Jul-1942 Mar

Bound volume of official correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply, Jul 1941-Jan 1942 and correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, Feb 1942; a letter from Stern and other members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence and other members of the War Cabinet, following the notification of the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply that their services were no longer required by the Ministry of Supply, indicating their determination to carry on with their work, 14 Jan 1942 and papers relating to modifications of the TOG 1 tank, the continuing trials of the TOG 2 tank and proposals for the TOG 3 tank. Part of 'Duplicate Set'.

STERN: 2/2/5 1942 Apr-1943 Apr

Bound volume of correspondence and notes of interviews relating to Stern's chairmanship of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, notably papers relating to the continuing work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, involving making modifications to the TOG 2 tank; correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, Apr 1942-Apr 1943; correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence, Jul-Sep 1942 and papers relating to proposals for the TOG 3 tank. Part of 'Duplicate Set'.

STERN: 2/3/1-3 Bound volumes of minutes of Committee meetings and official meetings of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Sep-1942 Jan

STERN: 2/3/1 1939 Sep-1942 Jan

Bound volume of minutes of Committee Meetings of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply.

STERN: 2/3/2 1939 Sep-1940 Apr

Bound volume of official meetings, notes of interviews and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply.

STERN: 2/3/3 1940 Apr-1940 Jul

Bound volume of official meetings, notes of interviews and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply.

STERN: 2/4/1-135 Correspondence and reports relating to work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Jul-1940 Dec

STERN: 2/4/1 1939 Jul 6

Letter from Vice Adm Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, Army Council, War Office to Stern, inviting Stern to lunch to discuss tank strategy. 1p

STERN: 2/4/2 1939 Aug 22

Letter from Vice Adm Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply to Stern, suggesting that Stern meet Gen Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, Senior Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply as a means of passing on his ideas on tank design to the General Staff. 1p

STERN: 2/4/3 1939 Sep 5

Letter from Maj Gen Alexander Elliott Davidson, Director of Mechanisation, Ministry of Supply to Stern communicating the nature of the accommodation and personnel facilities to be made available to Stern at the Ministry of Supply to explore the possibility of designing and constructing a special tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/4 1939 Sep 26

Memorandum of meeting between Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton and Stern, at the War Office, London, to discuss the nature of the investigation by Stern and Swinton into a new heavy tank design on behalf of the War Office. 1p

STERN: 2/4/5 1939 Sep 28

General Staff memorandum R B M 17, containing an outline specification for a Super Heavy Tank (Land Battleship). 1p

STERN: 2/4/6 1939 Oct 12

Letter from A Watson, Ministry of Supply, to Stern informing him of the proposalof the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to appoint him Chairman of a small technical committeee to consider special vehicular development. 1p

STERN: 2/4/7 1939 Oct 13

Letter from Stern to A Watson, Ministry of Supply, agreeing to the proposal of the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to appoint him Chairman of a small technical committeee to consider special vehicular development. 1p

STERN: 2/4/8 1939 Nov

List of persons participating in a mission to France to examine all the existing French tanks and new French tank designs, including Stern and the other members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and officers of the General Staff, War Office, 24-30 Nov 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/4/9 1939 Nov

Memorandum briefly describing the events leading up to the visit by Stern and other members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and officers of the General Staff, War Office, to France to inspect all the existing French tanks and new French tank designs, Nov 1939, including references to a meeting on 29 Aug 1939 between Stern and Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, Senior Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply, who told Stern that everything possible had been done for the development of tanks since the end of World War One and a subsequent meeting between Stern and Maj Gen Alexander Elliott Davidson, Director of Mechanisation, Ministry of Supply, who told Stern that nothing had been done for the development of tanks since the end of World War One, apart from work carried out by the Vickers Company, the meeting with Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, on 26 Sep 1939 (at which Stern and Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton were briefed about War Office requirements for a new heavy tank design) and subsequent obstruction on the part of Davidson and Taylor to the progress of Stern's work. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/10 1939 Dec 14

Minutes of a meeting at the Ministry of Supply attended by Stern and Maj Kenneth P Symes of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, representatives of the Ministry of Supply and the Naval Contracts Department of the Admiralty and representatives of the steel manufacturing industry, to discuss face hardened bullet proof and armour plate for use in the projected tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/11 1939 Dec 19

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, reporting a proposed meeting at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 21 Dec 1939, involving representatives of the Army and Ministry of Supply, to examine the initial outline drawing of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and that trials of armour plate were to be carried out under the control of the Admiralty. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/12 1940 Feb 16

Memorandum of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, entitled 'Future plans', describing design considerations and production plans for the the projected heavy tank. 4pp

STERN: 2/4/13 1940 Feb 16

Memorandum of an interview between the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply and Stern, describing the progress of the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern's proposal that an early claim for steel and production capacity should be made for the projected heavy tank, as part of the 1941 production programme. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/14 1940 Feb 19

Cover letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern, relating to a memorandum of an interview between them on 16 Feb 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/15 1940 Feb 19

Memorandum of an interview between the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply and Stern, on 16 Feb 1940 describing the progress of the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern's proposal that an early claim for steel and production capacity should be made for the projected heavy tank, as part of the 1941 production programme. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/16 1940 Mar 1

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, reporting the demonstration of the mock-up of the TOG 1 tank to officers of the British and French Armies, including Lt Gen Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, War Office, at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 29 Feb 1940. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/17 1940 Feb 29

List of those officers of the British and French Armies, including Lt Gen Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, War Office, present at the demonstration of the mock-up of the TOG 1 tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 29 Feb 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/18 1940 Mar 9

Letter from Stern to the Right Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Secretary of State for War, outlining his views on tank development, including the need for the Tank Board to utilise the best civilian technical knowledge. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/19 1940 Mar 26

Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply memorandum entitled 'Weights of low track and tunnel type machine', containing figures telephoned by W Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/20 1940 Mar

Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply report on the TOG 1 tank, summarising design and proposed production policy for the 1941 Campaign. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/21 1940 Mar 18

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, expressing his disappointment at the decision of a Cabinet meeting on tanks to defer a decision on placing an order for the TOG 1 tank and containing proposals for a reconstituted Tank Board. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/22 1940 Apr 2

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, deploring the lack of progress and lack of civilian involvement in tank design since the end of World War One and advocating the creation of a reconstituted Tank Board. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/23 1940 Apr 4

Letter from J Wattle, the Admiralty, Bath, Somerset to Stern, containing estimates for the delivery of cemented armour plate by the Admiralty for use in the construction of special vehicles. 1p

STERN: 2/4/24 1940 Apr 10

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, deploring the neglect of his proposal to produce a thousand new tanks in 1941 and drawing an analogy with the position in 1917, when the War Office had informed the Ministry of Munitions that they required no more tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/4/25 1940 Apr 10

Memorandum of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, 10 Apr 1940, relating to Stern's dissatisfaction with the proposals for tank capability for future campaigns in France, criticisms made by Stern of the A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) and Infantry Tank Mark IV and a description of the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Maj Walter Gordon Wilson from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/26 1940 Apr 11

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, detailing the materials required for completing the pilot models of the TOG tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/4/27 1940 Apr 15

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, quoting a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, of 2 Apr 1940, advocating the creation of a reconstituted Tank Board. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/28 1940 Apr 15

Extract from a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, quoting a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, of 2 Apr 1940, relating to the delayed production date of the Infantry Tank Mark IV. 1p

STERN: 2/4/29 1940

Extract from History of the Ministry of Munitions, Vol 12, Part 3, Tanks, (1920), page 67, relating to the establishment and composition of the Tank Board in Aug 1918. 1p

STERN: 2/4/30 1940 Apr 19

Two copies of a report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, at which they discussed the lack of an order from the Army for heavy tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/31 1940 Apr 23

Two copies of a letter from Stern to Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, requesting the immediate order of one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, an order which could be cancelled in Aug 1940 if the pilot trials of the tanks were unsuccessful. 1p

STERN: 2/4/32 1940 Apr 23

Letter from Stern to Gen William Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, informing him that Stern intended to make an appointment to try to persuade him in person to place an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/33 1940 Apr 26

Draft report of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, at which Burgin requested details of the components required for the projected tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and discussed the creation of a Tank Board and Stern expressed no confidence in the ability of the Ministry of Supply to manage tank development and criticised the performance of the Infantry Tank Mark II, which was in production. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/34 1940 Apr 29

Draft report of interviews between Stern and Lt Gen Laurence Carr, Senior Military Assistant, Ministry of Supply and Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, in the course of which Carr informed Stern that the order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply had been turned down because Burgin had said that the order would interfere with the future development of tanks and Burgin suggested that his attitude had been incorrectly represented. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/35 1940 Apr 29

Letter from Stern to Lt Gen Laurence Carr, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, thanking him for their interview of 29 Apr 1940, at which the proposed order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply was discussed. 1p

STERN: 2/4/36 1940 Apr 29

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, placing it on record that the failure to order one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply was apparently due to Burgin's statement to the Military Co-ordinating Committee, of the War Cabinet that such an order would interfere with tank output during 1941 and stating Stern's reasons for disagreeing with this view. 1p

STERN: 2/4/37 1940 Apr 29

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Secretary of State for War, urgently requesting an interview and mentioning Stern's interview with Lt Gen Laurence Carr, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff of 29 Apr 1940 in connection with the order of one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1p

STERN: 2/4/38 1940 May 1

Memorandum by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Secretary of State for War, defending his request that an order be placed for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and criticising the performance off the road and the armour of the Infantry Tank Mark IV. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/39 1940 May 2

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, mentioning his interview with the Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Secretary of State for War, of May 1 1940, at which he set out his reasons for the placing of an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and hoping that Burgin would give him an opportunity to prove to him that his contention was correct. 1p

STERN: 2/4/40 1940 May 3

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply informing him that the electric transmission for the TOG 1 tank had been completed by the English Electric Company Limited, Bradford, Yorkshire and that initial tests by the Company had proved satisfactory. 1p

STERN: 2/4/41 1940 May 8

Letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the decision of the Military Co-ordination Committee, of the War Cabinet to order three prototype models of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, but not to place orders for one hundred engines, transmissions or any other material. 1p

STERN: 2/4/42 1940 May 15

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply briefly setting out the remit and composition of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and listing documents enclosed with the original letter. 1p

STERN: 2/4/43 1940 May 21

Draft memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply advocating the immediate setting up of a Tank Board, the separation of the Mechanical Transport and Tank Department of the Ministry of Supply and castigating the failure of those holding responsibilty to plan and develop mechanical warfare, in contrast with the position of armament manufacture in the totalitarian states. 1p

STERN: 2/4/44 1940 May 21

Memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply advocating the immediate setting up of a Tank Board and the separation of the Mechanical Transport and Tank Department of the Ministry of Supply and castigating the failure of those holding responsibilty to plan and develop mechanical warfare, in contrast with the position of armament manufacture in the totalitarian states. 1p

STERN: 2/4/45 1940 May 21

Memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, summarising the objectives and progress of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and denying that an order for his Committee's tank would interfere with existing tank production. 1p

STERN: 2/4/46 1940 May 21

Report of an interview between Stern and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, at the House of Commons at which Stern recommended the appointment of a Tank Board and raised the question of whether an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply would be placed if the pilot trial were a success. 1p

STERN: 2/4/47 1940 May 24

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, criticising the design of the Infantry Tank Mark IV partly on grounds of the fire danger posed by its petrol motor and advocating that production be delayed pending independent tests. 1p

STERN: 2/4/48 1940 May 24

Extract from a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, of 24 May 1940, criticising the design of the Infantry Tank Mark IV partly on grounds of the fire danger posed by its petrol motor and advocating that production be delayed pending independent tests. 1p

STERN: 2/4/49 1940 May 28

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, revising an earlier estimate of the cost of jigs and special tools required for production of the tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, given in a letter of 24 May 1940, from £50,000 down to £30,000. 1p

STERN: 2/4/50 1940 May 28

Memorandum containing a detailed breakdown of the cost of jigs and special tools required for production of the tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and estimating the total as £30,000. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/51 1940 May 30

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the setting up of a Tank Board and advising him that production of the Infantry Tank Mark IV was being left open in view of the existing situation. 1p

STERN: 2/4/52 1940 May 31

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, congratulating him on the choice of the members of the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/53 1940 May 31

Memorandum from the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply outlining the remit, composition and work of the Committee, deploring the existing situation in tank production, advocating the standardisation of manufacture, engines and armament and making recommendations about the role of a Tank Board. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/54 1940

Draft memorandum from the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply outlining the remit, composition and work of the Committee, deploring the existing situation in tank production, advocating the standardisation of manufacture, engines and armament and making recommendations about the role of aTank Board. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/55 1940 Jun 10

Report by W Rigby William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, detailing the design considerations and specifications of both tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/56 1940 Jun 12

Cover letter from Stern to Sir Walter Thomas Layton, Director General of Programmes, Ministry of Supply relating to the sending of a document signed by the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and copies of other correspondence. 1p

STERN: 2/4/57 1940 Jun 12

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, expressing concern that he had not been given an appointment to appear before the Tank Board since being informed of its establishment on 30 May 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/58 1940 Jun 13

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, complaining that he had not been given an appointment by Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board to appear before the Board since its establishment on 30 May 1940 and referring to a statement that he had intended to present to the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/59 1940 Jun 13

Paper by Stern containing an account of his view of the failures in British tank design and production, the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the need for the Tank Board to act as a liaison body between the military authorities and civilian experts and manufacturers. 8pp

STERN: 2/4/60 1940 Jun 14

Letter from Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, confirming that the Tank Board had had to go into recession pending the resolution of certain matters. 1p

STERN: 2/4/61 1940 Jun17

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, informing him that he could always be contacted by his office even when making visits outside London in the course of his work on special vehicle design. 1p

STERN: 2/4/62 1940 Jun 17

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern, regretting that Stern had been unable to present a statement signed by the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Tank Board and informing him of the appointment of a new Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/63 1940 Jun 17

Note by Stern recording his difficulty in obtaining an appointment with Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, 5 Jun-12 Jun 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/64 1940 Jun 18

Letter from Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, thanking him for a letter of 17 Jun and expressing the belief that Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, newly appointed Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply would shortly wish to see him. 1p

STERN: 2/4/65 1940 Jun 19

Letter from Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, pointing out the apparent absence of previous knowledge of tanks amongst the members of the recently appointed Tank Board and the failure of the Tank Board to consult the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and recommending that future appointments of individuals and bodies be made in consultation with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/66 1940 Jun 20

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply expressing his concern at a report that the Government had decided to reduce an order for the 600 horse power Paxman-Ricardo engine, originally designed for the TOG 1 tank, from six hundred engines to eighty and that the surplus was to be scrapped. 1p

STERN: 2/4/67 1940 Jun 24

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/68 1940 Jun 24

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply informing him that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/69 1940 Jun 25

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern, informing him in response to his letter of 20 Jun 1940 concerning the report of the scrapping of surplus parts of the 600 horse power Paxman-Ricardo engine, originally designed for the TOG 1 tank, that few excess components had in fact been manufactured and all the surplus was to be retained until it was clear that it was not required. 1p

STERN: 2/4/70 1940 Jun 25

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, expressing his gratitude at being informed in a letter of 24 Jun 1940 that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/71 1940 Jun 28

Report of a meeting of the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London, including discussion of the propsals for TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/72 1940 Jun

Report of design considerations and detailed specification of the TOG 1 tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/73 1940 Jun

Report on the superiority of design of the TOG 2 over the TOG 1 tank and detailed specification of the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/74 1940 Jul 1

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, relating to the enclosure of general specifications of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks and the use of turrets with all round fire. 1p

STERN: 2/4/75 1940 Jul 2

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply advising him of the subjects to be discussed at a meeting between them scheduled for 3 Jul 1940, relating in general to armour plate for tank construction. 1p

STERN: 2/4/76 1940 Jul 3

Memorandum of a meeting of Department of Tanks and Transport 1, Ministry of Supply of 3 Jul 1940, attended by representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to discuss the production of armour plate for tank construction. 1p

STERN: 2/4/77 1940 Jul 5

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, requesting a copy of the minutes of a meeting of 28 Jun 1940 between the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/78 1940 Jul 5

Letter from G F Seel, Secretary, Tank Board to Stern replying to a letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board of 5 Jul 1940, regretting that the Chairman of the Tank Board was unable to provide a copy of the minutes of a meeting of 28 Jun 1940 between the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, because the minutes were confidential to the Tank Board and Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/79 1940 Jul 8

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, notifying him that the technical advisors to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply were to be present at a meeting of the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply scheduled for 9 Jul 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/80 1940 Jul 8

Report of an interview between Stern and Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, at which they discussed the performance and future requirements of the British Army's tanks in the light of Pope's experience of armoured warfare in France, 1940. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/81 1940 Jul 8

Report of a discussion over lunch between Stern and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to the tank designers working on behalf of both the Department of Tanks and Transport Ministry of Supply and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern's view that the members of his Committee should have regular meetings with the designers of the Department of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply and representatives of the War Office. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/82 1940 Jul 9

Report of a meeting between the Tank Board and the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London, with the technical consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply in attendance, relating to the design, engine, armour and armament of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/83 1940 Jul 11

Note by Stern relating to a telephone request to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, to allow the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to borrow an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) for twenty four hours for testing at the works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

STERN: 2/4/84 1940 Jul 12,1940 Jul 15

Copies of an exchange of letters between Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply and Stern, in which Stern denied Burton's statement that the request of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, of 11 Jul 1940, to borrow an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) for twenty four hours for testing at the works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire was in order to photograph the tank for use in a film, and Stern responded to Burton's criticism that film of a World War One tank previously shown by the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Tank Board had been misleading through being played at too high a speed. 1p

STERN: 2/4/85 1940 Jul 15

Note by Stern on considerations for the design of the next model of the Cruiser Tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/86 1940 Jul 17

Letter from Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply to Stern thanking him for a letter of 16 Jul 1940 dealing with tests on cemented armour for use in tank manufacture and noting that Stern intended to hold a meeting with A M M Durrant, Directorate of Tank Design, Ministry of Supply and apologising for misunderstanding the nature of Stern's request to borrow an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) for twenty four hours for testing at the works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

STERN: 2/4/87 1940 Jul 18

Letter from Stern to Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board, repeating an earlier request of 5 Jul 1940, that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should receive copies of the minutes of its meetings with the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/88 1940 Jul 19

Letter from Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board to Stern, refusing Stern's request contained in a letter of 18 Jul 1940, that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should receive copies of the minutes of its meetings with the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/89 1940 Jul 15,1940 Jul 22

Copies of internal minutes of the Department of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, relating to the proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should be referred directly to the Vickers Company in the light of the abandonment by the General Staff of the six pounder gun for use in the Infantry Tank Mark II. 1p

STERN: 2/4/90 1940 Jul 23

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him that on the recommendation of the Tank Board, no immediate expenditure on production capacity could be allowed for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, that pilot trials of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks should first continue and that armour plate reserved by the Admiralty for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks had been diverted to other urgent requirements. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/91 1940 Jul 22-1940 Jul 25

Notes by Stern on conversations with A M M Durrant, Directorate of Tank Design, Ministry of Supply to arrange inspections of the A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) and A20 Tank and to examine the drawings of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV). 2pp

STERN: 2/4/92 1940 Jul 26

Report of a visit by Stern and other representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, to see a running trial of the A20 Tank and to inspect a wooden mock-up of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV). 1p

STERN: 2/4/93 1940 Jul 26

Note by Stern on the visit of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, where they saw a wooden mock-up of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) and C J Bartlett, Vauxhall Company, Luton Bedfordshire commented that the company had had no experience in tank manufacture and had received no data from the Mechanisation Board, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/94 1940 Jul 29

Notes by Stern for a meeting with Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, 29 Jul 1940, including his concerns over errors in tank manufacture in the light of the visit of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, 26 Jul 1940, his view of the vulnerability of the track of the Valentine (Infantry Tank Mark III), his concerns about the failure of the Tank Board to make its minutes available to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and his view of the inadequacy of the Tank Board as it was then constituted. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/95 1940 Jul 29

Notes by Stern on an interview with Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, including Burton's question to Stern as to why there was a tremendous increase in the weight of heavier tanks without a corresponding increase in armament. 1p

STERN: 2/4/96 1940 Jul 30

Letter from Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply to Stern, passing on a request from the War Office, that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply investigate the possibility of designing an amphibious tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/97 1940 Jul 31

Letter from Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the appointment of liaison officers for the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the promise to supply Stern with what information existed about German armoured fighting vehicles. 1p

STERN: 2/4/98 1940 Aug 1

Letter from A M M Durrant, Directorate of Tank Design, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to a visit made by Stern and other representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire, when they had been unable to see an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) in operation. 1p

STERN: 2/4/99 1940 Aug 5

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply notifying him that the trials of the TOG 1 tank were anticipated to be held in Aug 1940 and those of TOG 2 in Oct 1940 and expressing his concern about the refusal of the Tank Board to make copies of its minutes available to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the absence of technical discussion at the meetings of the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/100 1940 Aug 9

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to trials by the Admiralty of six-pounder capped solid shot against three inch cemented armour plates. 1p

STERN: 2/4/101 1940 Aug 9

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to proposals to design an amphibious tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/102 1940 Aug 9

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply on the need for close contacts between those responsible for and those with knowledge of tank design and expressing a lack of confidence in the existing Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/103 1940 Aug 9

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply containing a proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should design an amphibious tank in conjunction with the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply and that a grant of £100,000 be authorised for the production of a pilot model. 1p

STERN: 2/4/104 1940 Aug 9

Report of an interview between Stern and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to the proposal that the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should design an amphibious tank in conjunction with the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply, Stern's criticism of the Tank Board, a request by Stern to borrow a mock-up of the turret of the A20 Tank, the results of firing trials of six-pounder capped shot and the suggested development of a twin engined tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/105 1940 Aug 12

Letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply relating to an interview between Stern and Sir George Henry Gater, Secretary of the Ministry of Supply, scheduled for 16 Aug 1940 and discussions about the proposal to design an amphibious tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/106 1940 Aug 12

Letter from Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply to Stern referring to an interview between Stern and Sir George Henry Gater, Secretary of the Ministry of Supply, scheduled for 16 Aug 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/107 1940 Aug 12

Notes of a meeting involving representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply, to discuss the design of an amphibious tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/108 1940 Aug 14-1940 Aug 15

Notes by Stern of a visit to William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, to discuss the design of an amphibious tank and matters relating to the design and testing of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/109 1940 Aug

Report 1A entitled 'Amphibious tank operations', containing objectives and specifications for the design of an amphibious tank and discussed at a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Naval Land Equipment Department, Ministry of Supply on 12 Jun 1940 1p

STERN: 2/4/110 1940 Aug 16

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

STERN: 2/4/111 1940 Aug 19

Letter from Stern to Sir George Henry Gater, Secretary of the Ministry of Supply replying to criticism from Gater made at a meeting on 16 Aug 1940, of a letter from Stern to Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply of 9 Aug 1940, in which Stern had expressed no confidence in the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/112 1940 Aug 19

Report by Stern containing recommendations for the design of an amphibious tank. 7pp

STERN: 2/4/113 1940 Aug 21

Note by Stern of an interview with Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply and Col Blagden, Ministry of Supply, relating to the design and armament of the turret of the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/114 1940 Aug 22

Note by Stern on a visit to Department of Tank Design, Wood Lee, Egham, Surrey to meet Col Watson, Ministry of Supply who was to act as Liaison Officer with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Maj H Keays, Tank Design Department, Ministry of Supply, with whom he discussed the gun mounting and turret of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/115 1940 Aug 23

Report by Stern of an interview between Stern and Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, at the War Office, London, at which they discussed the armament and turret of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/116 1940 Sep 3

Report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, attended by 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 they discussed Stern's criticism of the Tank Board, Stern's offer to head a Tank Research Department and the proposed design an amphibious tank. 3pp

STERN: 2/4/117 1940 Sep 10

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern congratulating him on the impending trials of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, emphasising the separate functions of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, regretting Stern's criticism of the personnel and functions of the Tank Board and informing him that design responsibilty for the proposed amphibious tank was to rest with Charles James William Hopkins, Director of Naval Land Equipment, Ministry of Supply and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, under Morrison's direction. 1p

STERN: 2/4/118 1940 Sep 27

Letter from Stern to Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, congratulating him and his company on the successful first display of the TOG 1 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/119 1940 Sep 30

Letter from Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to Stern, thanking him for his letter of congratulations of 27 Sep 1940 on the first display of the TOG 1 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/4/120 1940 Oct 6

Minutes of a meeting of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply held at the Works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire on the occasion of the first display of the TOG 1 tank to the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including the results of trials of the TOG 1 tank and considerations on the design of the TOG 2 tank. 6pp

STERN: 2/4/121 1940 Oct 21

Memorandum by Harry Ralph Ricardo, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on design considerations for an amphibious tank. 4pp

STERN: 2/4/122 1940 Oct 28

Memorandum by Stern for submission to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, outlining the remit of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and stating that the Tank Board lacked expert knowledge and ought to be constituted in a similar way to the Tank Board of 1918. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/123 1940 Oct 29

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, describing the remit and personnel of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/124 1940 Oct 29

Note by Stern of a meeting with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, at which it was agreed that it was necessary to establish a new Tank Board and that there should be separation of departmental responsibility between tanks and mechanical transport and between tank production and design and development. 1p

STERN: 2/4/125 1940 Oct 28,1940 Dec 2

Extracts made by Stern from a minute to and an interview with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, relating to the role and responsibilties of the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/4/126 1940 Dec 2

Report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, at which Stern was told of the formation of a new Tank Board, was offered a seat on the new Board and expressed his view of the existing unsatisfactory nature of tank design and production. 1p

STERN: 2/4/127 1940 Dec 9

Minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and employees of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, at the Works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, to discuss a scheme for cooling the engine, generators and fighting compartment of the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/128 1940 Dec 10

Minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and employees of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to discuss a proposal to build a medium tank of forty to fifty tons weight with electric drive. 2pp

STERN: 2/4/129 1940 Dec 11

Notes by Stern of an interview with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, at which Stern explained the position of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/4/130 1940 Dec 12

Note by Stern of a conversation with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, relating to the date of an inspection of the TOG 1 tank at the Works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

STERN: 2/4/131 1940 Dec 16

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, requesting a meeting with the relevant military authorities to examine the tank campaign in Western Egypt. 1p

STERN: 2/4/132 1940 Dec 17

Notes by Stern of a conversation with French Gen Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, including de Gaulle's view of the need to create the kind of integrated, mechanised modern army which had defeated France in 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/4/133 1940 Dec 28

Report by Harry Ralph Ricardo, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, entitled 'Further note on power plant for tanks'. 4pp

STERN: 2/5/1-97 Correspondence and reports relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1941-1942

STERN: 2/5/1 1941 Jan 3

Report by William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on a report by by Harry Ralph Ricardo, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, entitled 'Further note on power plant for tanks', 28 Dec 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/5/2 1941 Jan 4

Report by J F Peck, Professor of Hydraulics, Loughborough College Scientific Society, Consultant to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, entitled 'Hydraulic transmission for TOG 1/A'. 3pp

STERN: 2/5/3 1941 Jan 8

Notes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, at William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, relating to trials of the TOG 1 tank, the design of the TOG 2 tank and proposals for the TOG 3 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/4 1941 Jan 9

Notes on the trial of the TOG 1 tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, including list of those attending. 1p

STERN: 2/5/5 1941 Jan 9

Letter from W B Brown, Ministry of Supply to Stern, containing an offer of membership of the reconstituted Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/5/6 1941 Jan 17

Extract from the minutes of the tenth meeting of the Tank Board, including a description by the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply of the responsibilities and the composition of the reconstituted Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2//5/7 1941 Jan 30

Letter from Stern to Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, containing questions to the Tank Board about tracks and armour for tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/5/8 1941 Jan

Memorandum from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, listing considerations for tank design. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/9 1941 Jan 30

Letter from Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office to Stern containing comments on the points raised in a memorandum by Stern of Jan 1941 listing considerations for tank design. 1p

STERN: 2/5/10 1941 Feb 4

Note by Stern of a meeting with Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board and James G Weir, prospective Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, at which Stern was asked to provide Weir with assistance in his new post. 1p

STERN: 2/5/11 1941 Feb 10

Letter from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, containing five conclusions about tank design, (the importance of armoured troops in battle, the need for mass production of armoured vehicles, the need for standardisation of tank furniture, that maintenance should be carried out by the Tank Corps and that use should be made of tank carriers) in response to correspondence between them of Jan 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/12 1941 Feb 10

Letter from Stern to Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, suggesting that the Tank Board should maintain a statistical office recording output of tank components. 1p

STERN: 2/5/13 1941 Feb 10

Letter from Stern to Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board requesting an appointment to communicate information about tank tracks. 1p

STERN: 2/5/14 1941 Feb 11

Report by Lt Col Clare Brayton Bouchier, Assistant Director, Tank Supply Department, Ministry of Supply on a memorandum from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, listing considerations for tank design, Jan 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/15 1941 Feb 18

Letter from Stern to Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board relating to the use of cemented armour plate and machineable quality armour plate in tank construction. 1p

STERN: 2/5/16 1941 Feb 18

Letter from Stern to James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, Head of Track Committee, Ministry of Supply indicating that William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply would be happy to serve on the Track Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/17 1941 Feb 18

Report by C J Bartlett, Vauxhall Company, Luton Bedfordshire on a memorandum from Stern to Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, listing considerations for tank design, Jan 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/18 1941 Feb 24

Note by Stern of a conversation with Maj Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, Commander, Royal Armoured Corps concerning the design of Infantry and Cruiser Tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/5/19 1941 Mar 11

Letter from Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director of Artillery to Stern containing proposals for the armament of the TOG tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/20 1941 Mar 12

Report by Stern on a visit by James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply, to Stern's home at Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent, at which they held discussions relating to the Tank Board and the future of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/21 1941 Mar 13

Letter from Stern to Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director of Artillery thanking him for his constructive views on the armament of TOG tanks, set out in a letter of 11 Mar 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/22 1941 May 13

Memorandum by Stern, containing criticisms of the state of mechanical warfare including the abolition of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, the order to Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire of the Infantry Tank Mark IV and the lack of experience in tank development amongst the members of the Tank Board. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/23 1941 May

Extract from document T B Number 57 (41), suggesting that a tank suitable to carry a six pounder gun should be developed from the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV). 1p

STERN: 2/5/24 1941 May 14

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, relating to the enclosure of a statement by Stern concerning the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) and inviting him to stay at Stern's home at Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent for discussions. 1p

STERN: 2/5/25 1941 May 14

Letter from the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply to Stern, in reply to his letter of 13 May 1941, thanking him for a document on tank design policy and accepting Stern's invitation to stay at his home at Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent for discussions. 1p

STERN: 2/5/26 1941 May 16

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, asking for an urgent private discussion. 1p

STERN: 2/5/27 1941 May 19

Letter from Stern to James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply explaining the reasons for the design of the TOG 1, TOG 2, TOG 2A and TOG 3 tanks by the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/28 1941 May 20

Letter from James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply to Stern, requesting that he stop further work on the TOG 3 tank and continue with experimental work on the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks only. 1p

STERN: 2/5/29 1941 May 22

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with James G Weir, Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Design and Development), Ministry of Supply in which they discussed the cancellation of further work on the TOG 2A tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/30 1941 Jun 27

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, accepting the offer of the position of Director General of Mechanical Engineering (Administration and Statistics), Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/31 1941 Aug 13

Memorandum by Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, describing the new terms of reference of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/32 1941 Sep 26

Minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and manufacturers at the Works of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, to discuss transmission and the proposed use of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine in the TOG tanks and the production of layoutbdrawings of the TOG 2R tank. 3pp

STERN: 2/5/33 1941 Sep 27

Report by H E Merritt for Stern, recommending an all-mechanical transmission for the TOG tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/34 1941 Oct 2

Report of the Anglo-American Commission entitled 'Notes on hydraulic transmission'. 4pp

STERN: 2/5/35 1941 Oct 7

Letter from Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Cdr R H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, relating to the enclosure of a schedule for a forthcoming meeting. 1p

STERN: 2/5/36 1941 Oct 10

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply thanking him for attending a meeting of 9 Oct 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/37 1941 Oct 10

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern suggesting that he be coopted officially onto the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/38 1941 Nov 7

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, about an inspection of a German Panzer Mark IV tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/39 1941 Nov 18

Manuscript memorandum (including diagrams) from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, relating to the use of armour piercing shot in tank warfare. 1p

STERN: 2/5/40 1941 Nov 18

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply thanking him for help in obtaining a pamphlet on German tank drill and summaries of German tanks from M I 14 and M I 10. 1p

STERN: 2/5/41 1941 Nov 25

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter concerning the gun for the US Heavy Tank T1. 1p

STERN: 2/5/42 1941 Nov 30

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the armament of the US Heavy Tank T1 and the German Panzer Mark IV tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/43 1941 Dec 4

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply requesting that he be present at a trial of the TOG 2* tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 12 Dec 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/44 1941 Dec 8

Letter from Stern to Lt Col Carl Richard Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply requesting that he be present at a trial of the TOG 2* tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 12 Dec 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/45 1941 Dec

Letter from Lt Col Carl Richard Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern informing him that he and Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply would be attending the trial of the TOG 2* tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 12 Dec 1941. 1p

STERN: 2/5/46 1941 Dec 9

Letter from Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the use of armour piercing shot in tank warfare. 1p

STERN: 2/5/47 1941 Dec 17

Note by Stern of a telephone message from Lt Col Carl Richard Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the striking velocity and armour penetration of the twenty-five pounder gun. 1p

STERN: 2/5/48 1941 Dec 26

Letter from Lt Col Carl Richard Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern sending his good wishes. 1p

STERN: 2/5/49 1941 Dec 29

Memorandum from H N Ball on behalf of Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the enclosure of schedules of tank and anti-tank weapons. 1p

STERN: 2/5/50 1941 Dec 31

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply thanking him for schedules of tank and anti-tank weapons. 1p

STERN: 2/5/51 1942 Jan 28

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the production of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/52 1942 Jan 22

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Brig Frederick George Wrisberg, Director Weapons Production, War Office relating to two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/53 1942 Jan 26

Letter from to Brig Frederick George Wrisberg, Director Weapons Production, War Office to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/54 1942 Jan 29

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, thanking him for his attention to the matter of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/55 1942 Jan 27,1942 Jan 30

Copy for Stern of memoranda from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply placing an order for two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/56 1942 Mar 10

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, making a final appeal against the decision to terminate work on the TOG 3 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/57 1940 May 8

Letter, (an enclosure to a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, making a final appeal against the decision to terminate work on the TOG 3 tank), from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the decision of the Military Co-ordination Committee, of the War Cabinet to order three prototype models of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, but not to place orders for one hundred engines, transmissions or any other material. 1p

STERN: 2/5/58 1942 Mar

Report by Stern, entitled 'Heavily Armed Tanks', containing a comparison between the US Heavy Tank T1 and the TOG 3 tank. 5pp

STERN: 2/5/59 1942 Mar

Memorandum by Stern summarising information given to him explaining the nature of problems with the design and production of the Infantry Tank Mark IV and containing a forecast that those problems should be resolved by the end of March 1942. 1p

STERN: 2/5/60 1942 Mar

Condensation by Stern, containing critical comments, of a memorandum by himself of Mar 1942 summarising information given to him explaining the nature of problems with the design and production of the Infantry Tank Mark IV and containing a forecast that those problems should be resolved by the end of March 1942. 1p

STERN: 2/5/61 1942 Mar

List of points made in reply to a memorandum by Stern relating to problems with production of the Infantry Tank Mark IV. 1p

STERN: 2/5/62 1942 Mar 19

Report by Stern of an interview with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply and Sir William Edward Rootes, Chairman, Supply Council, Ministry of Supply, at which Stern expressed concern that there was no person on the Anglo-American Commission who had knowledge of heavy tanks and no person on the Tank Board who was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 3pp

STERN: 2/5/63 1942 May

Narrative by Stern charting the main events in his involvement in tank development from Jun 1939 to May 1942. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/64 1942 May 11

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply advising him of the destination for despatch of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/65 1942 May 15

Note by Stern of a remark by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply that the question of a Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II gun for the TOG 2 tank had been put in order. 1p

STERN: 2/5/66 1942 May 14

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Department of Chief Inspector of Armaments (1), Woolwich, requesting that two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank be delivered unproved to the manufacturers. 1p

STERN: 2/5/67 1942 May 14,1942 May 26,1942 May 28

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Department of Chief Inspector of Armaments (1), Woolwich, endorsed with the reply and forwarded to Stern, requesting that two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank be delivered unproved to the manufacturers. 1p

STERN: 2/5/68 1942 Jun 27

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, explaining the reasons for the order of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/69 1942 Jun 27

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a letter from himself to Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, explaining the reasons for the order of two Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II guns for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/70 1942 Aug 3

Memorandum of a visit by J E Calverley and S Potter, English Electric Company, British Purchasing Commission, Washington DC, US, to the General Electric Company, Erie Works, Pennsylvania, US, to discuss the US Heavy Tank T1 with representatives of the General Electric Company. 5pp

STERN: 2/5/71 1942 Aug 6

Memorandum of a visit by J E Calverley and S Potter, English Electric Company Limited, British Purchasing Commission, Washington DC, US, to Aberdeen Proving Ground, US, for tests and discussions on the US Heavy Tank T1 with staff and representatives of the General Electric Company. 7pp

STERN: 2/5/72 1942 Aug 8

Letter from J E Calverley and S Potter, English Electric Company Limited, British Purchasing Commission, Washington DC, US to Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply and W A Robotham, Ministry of Supply, relating to discussions held in the US concerning the US Heavy Tank T1, and the enclosure of memoranda of visits to the General Electric Company, Erie Works, Pennsylvania, US and Aberdeen Proving Ground, US. 1p

STERN: 2/5/73 1942 Aug 20

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern advising him to see M I 10's Intelligence Summary number 84 of 15 Aug 1942. 1p

STERN: 2/5/74 1942 Sep 11

Letter from Capt the Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production to Stern informing him of the proposal that heavy tanks should in future be of US production and of the opinions of Harry Ralph Ricardo, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply concerning the Ricardo Diesel 4 stroke H engine and the conversion of the meteor engine to compression ignition. 1p

STERN: 2/5/75 1942 Sep 30

Note by Stern of a conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply concerning a second gun for the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/5/76 1942 Oct 7,1942 Oct 8

Memorandum supplied by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply providing details of the Ordnance Quick Fire 4.5 inch Anti Tank Gun and its ammunition. 1p

STERN: 2/5/77 1942

Report by Lt Gen Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel entitled 'The gun in the tank, 1942', discussing the use of armament in tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/5/78 1942 Oct 2

First draft of a narrative by Stern of senior personnel and organisational changes in the Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, Sep 1939 to Sep 1942. 7pp

STERN: 2/5/79 1942 Oct 9

Second draft of a narrative by Stern of senior personnel and organisational changes in the Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, Sep 1939 to Sep 1942. 4pp

STERN: 2/5/80 1942 Oct 26

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence, setting out his reasons for criticising the decision to veto further research work on tanks of forty tons and over, including those of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/5/81 1942 Oct 26

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence setting out his reasons for calling for the setting up of a conference to examine the state of armoured warfare and for a Tank Commission to control all aspects of tank design and development. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/82 1942 Nov 7

Paper by Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply entitled 'Notes on tanks', calling for an official enquiry into the design and development of tanks, particularly in the light of their poor performance at Tobruk, Libya, Jun 1942 and elsewhere the Western Desert. 1p

STERN: 2/5/83 1942 Nov 14

Letter from Capt A Brindle, Canadian Technical Liaison Officer, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, providing details of the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II, 3.7 inch monobloc and 4.5 inch guns. 1p

STERN: 2/5/84 1942 Nov 17

Note of message from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply giving details of length, weight and back diameter of case of the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II, 3.7 inch monobloc and 4.5 inch guns, with sketches. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/85 1942 Nov 14

Letter from Capt A Brindle, Canadian Technical Liaison Officer, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern providing details of the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II, 3.7 inch monobloc and 4.5 inch guns. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/86 1942 Nov 20

Note by Stern of a meeting with Claude Dixon Gibb, Director General Weapons and Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply and Maj Gen Edward Montague Campbell Clarke, Director General of Artillery, relating to the fitting of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun into the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II gun. 1p

STERN: 2/5/87 1942 Nov 23

Note by Stern of a conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply concerning the supply of drawings of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

STERN: 2/5/88 1942 Nov 23,1942 Dec 3

Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design concerning the supply of a drawing of the barrel of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

STERN: 2/5/89 1942 Jul-1942 Aug

Copy forwarded to Stern of memoranda between the departments of the Director of Artillery and Armaments Design and the Ordnance Board concerning the development of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch Tank and Anti-Tank gun. 1p

STERN: 2/5/90 1942 Dec 15

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the enclosure of a memorandum by Stokes-Rees to Canadian Military Headquarters, 15 Dec 1942 on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks, which he thought would be of relevance to the armament of TOG tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/5/91 1942 Dec 15

Copy of a memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Canadian Military Headquarters for Stern containing his observations on a paper written by Maj Gen Giffard Le Quesne Martel, on the subject of the employment of the gun in tanks. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/92 1942 Dec

Manuscript notes and diagrams by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply on the Tank and Anti-Tank capability of the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder Mark II and 3.7 inch monobloc guns for use in the TOG 2 tank, relating to points contained in a letter of 16 Dec 1942 from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply . 2pp

STERN: 2/5/93 1942 Dec 23

Copy for Stern of a letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire relating to the manufacture of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in the TOG 2 tank. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/94 1942 Dec 23

Report by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply of a meeting to finalise the design of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc tank gun for use in a 17 pounder mounting. 2pp

STERN: 2/5/95 1942 Dec30

Letter from Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern regretting the decision to close down the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on 18 Feb 1943. 1p

STERN: 2/5/96 1942 Dec 31

Draft notes of a meeting including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, held on 31 Dec 1942 at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London to discuss the fitting of the existing 17 pounder mounting, breech ring and mechanism of the TOG 2 tank with an alternative Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc barrel. 1p

STERN: 2/5/97 1942 Dec 31

Notes of a meeting which included representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, held on 31 Dec 1942 at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London to discuss the fitting of the existing 17 pounder mounting, breech ring and mechanism of the TOG 2 tank with an alternative Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc barrel. 1p

STERN: 2/6/1-48 Correspondence and notes relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1943-1944; mostly correspondence between Stern and Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for the TOG 2 tank, 1943-1944 Apr

STERN: 2/6/1 1943 Jan 1

Report by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply on the new design of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch gun for mounting in a tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/2 1943 Jan 4

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of draft minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, held on 31 Dec 1942 at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London to discuss the fitting of the existing 17 pounder mounting, breech ring and mechanism of the TOG 2 tank with an alternative Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc barrel. 1p

STERN: 2/6/3 1943 Jan 8

Note by Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply of a telephone conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply in which Stokes-Rees suggested a number of amendments to the draft minutes of a meeting of representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, held on 31 Dec 1942 at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London to discuss the fitting of the existing 17 pounder mounting, breech ring and mechanism of the TOG 2 tank with an alternative Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc barrel. 1p

STERN: 2/6/4 1943 Jan 15

Letter from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter to Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. 1p

STERN: 2/6/5 1943 Jan 23

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply, to Stern detailing his view of the existing situation with regard to the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc breech end carried in a 17 pounder tank mounting. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/6 1943 Jan 28

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to J Cuthill, Messrs Oilwell Engineering Limited, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, Cheshire asking him to speed production of two Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun barrels and muzzle brakes for tank mounting. 1p

STERN: 2/6/7 1943 Jan

Diagram and notes by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply demonstrating the estimated comparative anti personnel performances of the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder and 3.7 inch monobloc guns employing anti personnel shot against face hardened plate. 1p

STERN: 2/6/8 1943 Feb 1

Note stating that the barrels of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns for tank mounting were being supplied complete with their own rings and mechanisms. 1p

STERN: 2/6/9 1943 Feb 3

Note from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the enclosure of unspecified documents and mentioning his possible transfer by the Admiralty to armament supply duties in Scotland. 1p

STERN: 2/6/10 1943 Feb 3

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the relative armour penetration of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc and the 17 pounder guns. 1p

STERN: 2/6/11 1943 Feb 6

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 the Secretary, the Ordnance Board, containing a technical design specification of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for 17 pounder tank mounting and note by the Ordnance Board of agreement with the design. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/12 1943 Feb 16

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the enclosure of a table and sketch of the sighting of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for tank mounting. 1p

STERN: 2/6/13 1943 Feb 5

Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply diagram entitled 'Sight, 17 pounder Mark I carriage, Mark II. Range dial F L 5982 modified to suit 3.7 inch A A guns Marks I II & III and full charge A P ammunition', enclosed in a memorandum of 5 Feb 1943 from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern 1p

STERN: 2/6/14 1943 Feb

Table of sighting showing comparison of Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft guns Marks I II and III employing anti-personnel full charge and high explosive reduced charge in relation to the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder anti-tank gun, enclosed in a memorandum of 5 Feb 1943 from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern 1p. 1p

STERN: 2/6/15 1943 Feb 17

Cover note from Stern to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter to C C Sanders, Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. 1p

STERN: 2/6/16 1943 Feb 18

Sketch by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply of Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder gun mounting of the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/17 1943 Feb 22

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern recommending that an urgent meeting be held to discuss the fitting of an Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun in a 17 pounder tank mounting. 1p

STERN: 2/6/18 1943 Feb 25

Notes of a meeting between representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, the Armaments Design and Tank Design Departments, Ministry of Supply and Messrs Stothert and Pitt Limited, Bitton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, held at the Ministry of Supply, Adelphi, London, to discuss the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun recoil system for tanks, the Ordnance Quick Fire 17 pounder gun and turret for the TOG 2 tank and the new Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun. 1p

STERN: 2/6/19 1943 Mar 2

Memorandum from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to the testing of two pilot Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc guns in 17 pounder and 17 pounder Mark II mountings at the proof butts, Woolwich. 1p

STERN: 2/6/20 1943 Mar 3

Letter from Stern to Claude Dixon Gibb, Director General Weapons and Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply thanking him for his assistance in the delivery of two pilot Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun barrels to Woolwich for proofing trials. 1p

STERN: 2/6/21 1943 Mar 5

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply to Stern relating to the design of a light and heavy 3 inch recoilless gun. 1p

STERN: 2/6/22 1943 Mar 5

Cover note from Stern to Tommy, (no further identification) relating to the enclosure of a letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/6/23 1943 Mar

Notes by Stern on the firing trials, mounting and subsequent arrangement of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun for tank mounting. 1p

STERN: 2/6/24 1943 Mar 7

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 the Secretary, the Ordnance Board on the firing trials of the Ordnance Quick Fire 3.7 inch monobloc gun in 17 pounder tank mounting, including the tabulated results of buffer pressure diagrams. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/25 1943 Mar 23

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

STERN: 2/6/26 1943 Apr 1

Letter from Ronald G Troup, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Gun Design, Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply relating to enclosured letter from Maj Gen Langley Browning, General Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery Training Establishments to Stern. 1p

STERN: 2/6/27 1943 Apr 12

Memorandum by William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply containing a specification of the pilot model and production model of the TOG 2 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/28 1943 Apr 21

Letter from the Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply to Stern regretting that the Minister was unable to attend the trial of the TOG 2 tank at Lincoln, Lincolnshire. 1p

STERN: 2/6/29 1943 Jun 9

Summary of a discussion between Stern, Capt the Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production, the Right Hon Sir (Percy) James Grigg, Secretary of State for War and the the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply relating to the armament of British tanks and the development work in that area being carried out by the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/6/30 1943 Jun

Two copies, one for Stern, of a footnote by Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to a paper by himself entitled 'Tank and anti-tank weapons, 1943' containing proposals for the armament of tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/6/31 1943 Jun 15

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to the expression of support of Maj Gen Alexander Hugh Gatehouse for the continuance of the TOG 3 tank project and the enclosure of a footnote by Stokes-Rees to a paper by himself entitled 'Tank and anti-tank weapons, 1943' containing proposals for the armament of tanks. 1p

STERN: 2/6/32 1943 Jun 26

Airmail letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, containing a pessimistic view of his new appointment. 1p

STERN: 2/6/33 1943 Jun 27

Airmail letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, detailing his enjoyment of the social aspects of his appointment, but expressing his frustration at a lack of intellectual progress. 1p

STERN: 2/6/34 1943 Sep 26

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to his role in Canada, aspects of Canadian politics and relations between Canada and the UK. 5pp

STERN: 2/6/35 1943 Nov 12

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating personal details of his involvement in Canada. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/36 1943 Nov 30

Letter from Mrs D J McFlinn to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a message from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada. 1p

STERN: 2/6/37 1943 Dec 6

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, relating to his appointment as honorary member of the Post War Planning and Reconstruction Group of Industrialists in Canada. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/38 1943

Memorandum by Stern entitled 'Tanks - 1944', containing criticism of existing tank designs, the absence of organisation in tank development, the abolition of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the suggestion that, as in the US, the motor trade should be involved in tank design. 3pp

STERN: 2/6/39 1944 Feb 14

Letter from Cdr Rowland H Stokes-Rees, British Admiralty Technical Mission, Ottawa, Canada to Stern, describing his interest in the Burlington Steel Company, Hamilton, Canada. 4pp

STERN: 2/6/40 1944 Feb 14

Report by J H Crang and Company, Toronto, Canada describing the financial and industrial status of the Burlington Steel Company, Hamilton, Canada. 2pp

STERN: 2/6/41 1944 Mar 23

Letter from William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to Stern, relating to the enclosure of Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/42 1944 Mar 9

Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 10pp

STERN: 2/6/43 1944 Apr 1

Note from William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to Stern, thanking him for lunch. 1p

STERN: 2/6/44 1944 Apr 1

Memorandum containing comments [by Stern] on Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/45 1944 Apr 14

Letter from William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to Stern relating to the design of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) as a development of the A20 Tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/46 1944 Apr 15

Amendment to Department of Tank Design Transmission Branch report number T N 63, detailing steering experiments on the TOG 2* tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/47 1944 Apr 20

Letter from Samuel Schofield Hammersley, M P to Stern, asking to know whether the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) was, with the exception of the transmission, a completely new design from the A20 Tank. 1p

STERN: 2/6/48 1944 Apr

Letter from William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire to Stern responding to a letter from Samuel Schofield Hammersley, M P to Stern of 20 Apr 1944, indicating that in his opinion the general design and layout of the A22 (Infantry Tank Mark IV) was the same as that of the A20 Tank. 1p

STERN: 2/7 Oct Official correspondence and notes of interviews between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, relating to the establishment and the early work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including papers relating to the design and first trial of the TOG 1 tank, 1939 Sep-1940

STERN: 2/7 1939 Sep-1940 Oct

File of official correspondence and notes of interviews between Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, relating to the establishment and early work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including papers relating to the design and first trial of the TOG 1 tank at William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, 29 Feb 1940.

STERN: 2/8/1-4 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, 1939 Sep-Dec

STERN: 2/8/1 1939 Oct 18

Memorandum by Stern describing his official contacts with the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, Sep-Oct 1939. 2pp

STERN: 2/8/2 1939 Oct 12

Draft Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, thanking him for facilitating the research work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 2pp

STERN: 2/8/3 1939 Nov 6

Memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, requesting the appointment of Brig Arthur George Kenchington, War Office as a member of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/8/4 1939 Dec 19

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, reporting on progress in the design of the proposed tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 2pp

STERN: 2/9 Papers relating to the enquiry of Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply to determine Stern's position in relation to tank development, 1939 Sep-1942 May

STERN: 2/9 1939 Sep-1942 May

File of papers relating to the enquiry of Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply, held at the Ministry of Supply, Strand, London, 23 May 1942, attended by Stern and 28 May 1942, at which Stern was recalled and further examined, to determine his position in relation to his employment in the Ministry of Munitions, the nature of his work in progress at that time on behalf of the Ministry of Munitions and whether that work should be allowed to continue and whether and in what way his knowledge and experience could be used to the advantage of the Ministry of Supply in relation to tank development, including full transcripts of the hearings of 23 and 28 May 1942 in typescript; a set of annexed documents produced at both hearings of the enquiry, numbered 1-54, 56-58 and 61, Sep 1939-Jul 1941 and a duplicate set of annexed documents produced at both hearings of the enquiry, numbered 1-54, 56-58 and 61, with in addition a document 65, Sep 1939-Jul 1941.

STERN: 2/10 Correspondence relating to the design, armour, armament and testing of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, including a report by Stern summarising development of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks and design considerations for the TOG 3 tank, 1940 Jun-1941 Apr

STERN: 2/10 1940 Jun-1941 Apr

File of correspondence between Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply; W Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply; Maj Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern relating to the mechanical design, armour, armament and testing of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, including a report by Stern for submission to the Tank Board, summarising the technical development of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks and detailing design considerations for the TOG 3 tank, bearing manuscript emendations by Tritton, Apr 1941.

STERN: 2/11 Papers relating to administration of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including expenditure for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, 1939 Jun-1942 Dec

STERN: 2/11 1939 Jun-1942 Dec

File of papers relating to the constitution, nomenclature, composition and financial administration of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including programme of Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, Jul 1941 and Ministry of Supply memorandum authorising expenditure on estimated costs of components and testing for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, Dec 1942.

STERN: 2/12 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 memoranda by Stern criticising the planning and progress of tank development, 1941 Jul-1942 Oct

STERN: 2/12 1941 Jul-1942 Oct

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.

STERN: 2/13 Correspondence and a note of an interview between Stern and Gen Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, Senior Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply, 1940 Oct-1941 Jan

STERN: 2/13 1940 Oct-1941 Jan

File containing correspondence and a note of an interview between Stern and Gen Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, Senior Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply, relating to the lack of draughtsmen at the disposal of Maj H Keays, Tank Design Department, Ministry of Supply, working on behalf of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply; the supply of three photographic enlargements taken from a film of the TOG 1 tank; the armament of the TOG 2 tank and a letter from Taylor apologising for his inability to attend a tank trial at Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

STERN: 2/14/1-4 Papers relating to the procurement of B-18 bombers by the British Air Ministry Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1938

STERN: 2/14/1 1938

Specification and cost of two hundred B-18 bombers. 1p

STERN: 2/14/2 1938 Jun 23

Note by Stern of an interview with Maj Sir (George) Joseph Ball, Director of Conservative Research Department, Deputy Chairman, National Publicity Bureau, at which they discussed the cost of two hundred B-18 bombers. 1p

STERN: 2/14/3 1938

Copy of cable (without any indication of sender or addressee) containing details of specification and cost of two hundred B-18 bombers. 1p

STERN: 2/14/4 1938 May 9

Tender from Donald W Douglas, President, Douglas Aircraft Company to Air Cdre J G Weir and members of the British Air Ministry Mission, Washington DC, US for the supply of one hundred, one hundred and fifty and two hundred B-18G bombers. 5pp

STERN: 2/15/1-40 Papers relating to a visit by a mission of the Ministry of Supply including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939 to study new and existing French tank designs, 1939 Nov-Dec

STERN: 2/15/1 1939 Nov

List of the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/15/2 1939 Oct 18

Note by Stern of the need to make urgent arrangements for the visit of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/3 1939 Nov 15

Letter of introduction from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply for Stern to Raoul Dautry, French Minister of Munitions, preparatory to a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/4 1939 Nov 21

Memorandum requesting a copy of a letter of introduction from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply for Stern to Raoul Dautry, French Minister of Munitions, preparatory to a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/5 1939 Nov 21

Letter from A Watson, Principal Assistant Secretary to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to the Chief Passport Officer, Passport Office, London, making arrangements for the passage to France of seven named officials of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/6 1939 Nov

Memorandum concerning the provision of foreign exchange for the visit of members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/7 1939 Nov 21

Note by Stern to J S Raynes, Ministry of Supply, asking him to arrange air passage for the visit of the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/8 1939 Nov 22

Letter from J S Raynes, Ministry of Supply to Imperial Airways Limited, London, authorising the priority air passage to France of seven named officials of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/9 1939 Nov 22

Ministry of Supply letter forwarded by Stern to William Rigby, William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Technical Advisor, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, E C Pound, Directorate of Naval Construction, the Admiralty and Maj John Ronald Greg, all members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939, informing them of the arrangements for their journey from London to Paris. 1p

STERN: 2/15/10 1939 Nov 22

Letter from J S Raynes, Ministry of Supply to Stern and the other members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939, confirming the official nature of their visit and enabling them to obtain foreign exchange. 1p

STERN: 2/15/11 1939 Nov 25

Manuscript letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply describing the plans for the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/12 1939 Nov 25

Typescript copy of a letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply describing the plans for the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/13 1939 Nov

Notes by Stern of visits to Paris, Satory, near Versailles, Rueil and Vincennes, France by the members of a Ministry of Supply mission including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to investigate the design, production and performance of French tanks, 25-30 Nov 1939. 7pp

STERN: 2/15/14 1939 Nov

Report by Stern on a type of high quality steel plate or high quality steel casting used as armour in the construction of French tanks, made in the course of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/15 1939 Nov

Notes of discussions in Paris, France between the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and representatives of the War Office and General Headquarters Staff, concerning the General Staff's outline specification of a siege warfare tank for use against the Siegfried Line, the German system of defensive fortifications. 2pp

STERN: 2/15/16 1939 Dec 5

Letter from Stern to Raoul Dautry, French Minister of Munitions, thanking him for the assistance shown to the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/17 1939 Dec 5

Letter from Stern to Col Fraser, British Embassy, Paris, thanking him for assistance shown to the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/18 1939 Dec 5

Letter from Stern to French Gen Lelong, Attaché Militaire, French Military Mission, London, thanking him for assistance shown to the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/19 1939 Dec 7

Letter from Stern to Brig Arthur George Kenchington, War Office, thanking him for assistance shown to the members of a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/20 1939 Dec 7

Letter from Stern to Brig Frederick Elliot Hotblack, General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force (B E F), France, thanking him for his contribution to a Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939. 1p

STERN: 2/15/21 1939 Dec 10

Letter from Brig Arthur George Kenchington, War Office to Stern, relating to the enclosure of notes on the meetings of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply by Armoured Fighting Vehicles Branch, General Headquarters. 1p

STERN: 2/15/22 1939 Dec 13

Note [by Stern] of request made by Ingénieur-Général Desmazieres at the Atelier Construction de Rueil, France, on 27 Nov 1939, to the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939 for types of armour plate. 1p

STERN: 2/15/23 1940 Jan

Draft note with sketches, by Stern, relating a request by the French Ministry of Munitions to the Ministry of Supply mission to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939 for two 400 horse power or 500 horse power Vee type petrol or heavy oil engines. 1p

STERN: 2/15/24 1940 Jan 19

Letter from Stern to Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France, relating to the enclosure of details in response to a request for two 400 horse power diesel engines. 1p

STERN: 2/15/25 1940 Jan 19

Letter from Stern to Maj A V Golding, Liaison Officer to the French Minister of Munitions, relating to the enclosure of details of the VR/618 (400 horse power Paxman-Ricardo) engine of the Davey-Paxman Company, for transmission to Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France. 1p

STERN: 2/15/26 1940 Jan 24

Letter from Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France to Stern, relating to the receipt of details of the VR/618 (400 horse power Paxman-Ricardo) engine of the Davey-Paxman Company, and explaining that the proposed engine was insufficiently powerful for his department's needs. 1p.

STERN: 2/15/27 1940 Jan 24

Letter from Maj A V Golding, Liaison Officer to the French Minister of Munitions to Stern, relating to the sending of details of the VR/618 (400 horse power Paxman-Ricardo) engine of the Davey-Paxman Company to Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France and explaining that Lavirotte had required an engine of 500 to 600 horse power and had found a French engine that was suitable. 1p

STERN: 2/15/28 1940 Jan 29

Letter from Stern to Maj A V Golding, Liaison Officer to the French Minister of Munitions thanking him for his assistance in the provision of details of the VR/618 (400 horse power Paxman-Ricardo) engine of the Davey-Paxman Company to Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France and requesting details of a 500 to 600 horse power French engine found by Lavirotte. 1p

STERN: 2/15/29 1940 Feb 5

Letter from Maj A V Golding, Liaison Officer to the French Minister of Munitions to Stern, notifying him that he had requested details of a 500 to 600 horse power French engine found by Ingénieur Militaire Principal Lavirotte, Atelier Construction de Rueil, France. 1p

STERN: 2/15/30 1940 Mar 1

Letter from S Potter, English Electric Company, London to Stern, requesting information about the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government. 1p

STERN: 2/15/31 1940 Mar 2

Note by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to Stern, relating to a letter of 1 Mar 1940 from S Potter, English Electric Company, London to Stern requesting information about the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government and suggesting that arrangements be made for representatives of The English Electric Company and Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to visit France. 1p

STERN: 2/15/32 1940 Mar 2

Letter from Stern to S Potter, English Electric Company, London, informing him that his request in a letter of 1 Mar 1940, to receive information about the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government, was under consideration. 1p

STERN: 2/15/33 1940 Mar 4

Note by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, relating to the choice of representatives from The English Electric Company and Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to visit France to investigate the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government. 1p

STERN: 2/15/34 1940 Mar 5

Letter from Stern to French Gen Lelong, Attaché Militaire, French Military Mission, London, requesting that he make arrangements for S Potter, English Electric Company and F Lydall, Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to visit France to investigate the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government. 1p

STERN: 2/15/35 1940 Mar 12

Letter from Maj A V Golding, Liaison Officer to the French Minister of Munitions to Stern expessing his disappointment at not being able to see the mock-up of the TOG 1 tank. 1p

STERN: 2/15/36 1940 Mar 28

Note by R H Addiscott, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply of information from French Gen Lelong, Attaché Militaire, French Military Mission, London about the progress of a request contained ina letter of 5 Mar 1940 that he make arrangements for S Potter, English Electric Company and F Lydall, Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to visit France to investigate the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government. 1p

STERN: 2/15/37 1940 Apr 15

Memorandum from Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to R H Addiscott, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, noting that the question of the payment of extra fees to The English Electric Company and Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply should be clarified in the light of the proposal that representatives of the companies visit France to investigate the use of electric transmission in special vehicles developed by the French Government. 1p

STERN: 2/15/38 1940 May 3

Letter from French Maj Pierret, Le Chef d'Etat de la Mission Militaire Française à Londres to Stern suggesting that S Potter, English Electric Company and F Lydall, Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, visit the Works of the Société Alsthom, France to see various types of electric transmission under consideration for use in vehicles of heavy tonnage. 1p

STERN: 2/15/39 1940 May 7

Letter from Stern to French Maj Pierret, Le Chef d'Etat de la Mission Militaire Française à Londres, in reply to a letter of 3 May 1940, requesting an invitation for S Potter, English Electric Company and F Lydall, Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to visit the Works of the Société Alsthom, France to see various types of electric transmission under consideration for use in vehicles of heavy tonnage. 1p

STERN: 2/15/40 1940 May 11

Letter from French Maj Pierret, Le Chef d'Etat de la Mission Militaire Française à Londres to Stern in reply to a letter of 7 May 1940, confirming that he would be acting on Stern's request that S Potter, English Electric Company and F Lydall, Messrs Merz and McLellan, electrical engineers, Consultants to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, be invited to visit the Works of the Société Alsthom, France to see various types of electric transmission under consideration for use in vehicles of heavy tonnage. 1p

STERN: 2/16 Papers relating to French tanks, including a specification of the French Char B tank and a list of the weights of French tanks, 1939 Nov

STERN: 2/16 1939 Nov

File of papers relating to French tanks, including a specification of the French Char B tank and a list of the weights of French light, medium, heavy and cavalry tanks.

STERN: 2/17/1-30 Papers relating to the request of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, 1940 Jan-Jun

STERN: 2/17/1 1940 Jan 9

Letter from A Matthews, Assistant Managing Director, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Stern, asking for confirmation that the company was to deal with the request of the French Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, on behalf of the French War Office, for sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, in view of the fact that compliance would reduce the amount of assistance the company could give to the Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/17/2 1940 Jan 16

Letter from Stern to A Matthews, Assistant Managing Director, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, in response to his letter of 9 Jan 1940 relating to a request from the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, informing him that his letter was being passed on to the Secretary of the Admiralty for consideration. 1p

STERN: 2/17/3 1940 Jan 29

Letter from J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Stern in response to his letter of 16 Jan 1940, asking for clarification from the Ministry of Supply or the Admiralty as to whether they were to accede to a further request from the French Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, on behalf of the French War Office, for sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick. 1p

STERN: 2/17/4 1940 Jan 30

Letter from Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire in response to his letter of 16 Jan 1940 to Stern relating to a request from the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, asking him to arrange a meeting with Stern in London. 1p

STERN: 2/17/5 1940 Jan 31

Letter from J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, in response to his letter of 30 Jan 1940, proposing a meeting at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 6 Feb 1940, to discuss a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/6 1940 Feb 1

Letter from Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire in response to his letter of 31 Jan 1940, making an appointment for him at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, to discuss a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/7 1940 Feb 2

Letter from J E Day, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, in response to a letter of 1 Feb 1940 to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, confirming the attendance of Crease at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, to discuss a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/8 1940 Feb 2

Letter from Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire referring to his own letter of 1 Feb 1940, altering the time of an appointment for Crease at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, to discuss a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/9 1940 Feb 3

Letter from J E Day, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, in response to a letter of 2 Feb 1940 to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, confirming the alteration of the time of attendance of Crease at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, to discuss a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/10 1940 Feb 8

Report by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply on a discussion between himself, Stern and J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire at the office of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, London on 8 Feb 1940, concerning a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/11 1940 Jan 7

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, requesting on behalf of the French War Office the supply of ten sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/17/12 1940 Jan 9

Letter from A Matthews, Assistant Managing Director, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, in response to their letter of 7 Jan 1940 requesting on behalf of the French War Office the supply of ten sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Supply, indicating that the company intended to refer the request to the Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/17/13 1940 Jan 23

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, in reply to their letter of 9 Jan 1940, pointing out that a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, entailed no commitment to bulk supply and was made with the agreement of the Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/17/14 1940 Feb 7

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, confirming his earlier letter of 9 Jan 1940 and anticipating delivery of sample plates of tank armour on behalf of the French War Office. 1p

STERN: 2/17/15 1940 Feb 9

Letter from J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, in reply to two letters of French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London of 23 Jan 1940 and 7 Feb 1940 relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, explaining that no action would be taken by the company to fulfil the request until consultations had taken place between the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement and the Ministry of Supply on the grounds of possible duplication of experimental work. 1p

STERN: 2/17/16 1940 Feb 9

Letter from J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Stern, relating to the enclosure of correspondence between the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London and Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire concerning a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/17 1940 Feb 12

Letter from Stern to French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, informing him that the plates would be sent out after the completion of official tests. 1p

STERN: 2/17/18 1940 Feb 12

Letter from Stern to J M Crease, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire, in reply to his letter of 9 Feb 1940 relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, informing him that he had contacted the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London and had noted that Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire were taking no further action in the matter. 1p

STERN: 2/17/19 1940 Feb 14

Letter from Henry Vaughan Markham, Principal Priority Officer, the Admiralty to Stern, relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, explaining that the manufacturers, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire had been informed that no priority of requirements could be established and that the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London should refer technical queries to the Admiralty. 1p

STERN: 2/17/20 1940 Feb 16

Letter from Stern to Henry Vaughan Markham, Principal Priority Officer, the Admiralty, in response to his letter of 14 Feb 1940, noting the action he had taken in relation to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour. 1p

STERN: 2/17/21 1940 Mar 26

Note by Stern of a telephone conversation with Mr Boulasse, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, relating to a request on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, in which Stern informed him that tests were taking place on the plates that week and he would keep him informed. 1p

STERN: 2/17/22 1940 Apr 8

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern requesting notification of the date of despatch of ten sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, requested on behalf of the French War Office. 1p

STERN: 2/17/23 1940 Apr 22

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern asking to know whether a consignment of sample plates of tank armour, requested on behalf of the French War Office was shortly to be despatched to France. 1p

STERN: 2/17/24 1940 Apr 23

Letter from Stern to French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, in reply to his letter of 22 Apr 1940 relating to the date of despatch of a consignment of sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, informing him that tests on the plates had been delayed. 1p

STERN: 2/17/25 1940 May 6

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern, in reply to his letter of 23 Apr 1940 relating to the date of despatch of a consignment of sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, asking him whether trials of the plates had been held. 1p

STERN: 2/17/26 1940 May 8

Letter from Stern to French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London in reply to his letter of 6 May 1940 relating to sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, informing him that trials of the plates had begun and were continuing. 1p

STERN: 2/17/27 1940 May 29

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern, in reply to his letter of 8 May 1940 relating to trials of sample plates of tank armour requested on behalf of the French War Office, requesting information about the results of the trials. 1p

STERN: 2/17/28 1940 May 31

Cover note from Stern to Mr Boulasse, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London relating to an order for sample plates of tank armour on behalf of the French War Office and the enclosure of a summary of firing trials on 120 pound plates. 1p

STERN: 2/17/29 1940 Jun 1

Letter from French Cdr A Gosselin, Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London to Stern, thanking him for his letter of 31 May 1940 relating to an order for sample plates of tank armour made on behalf of the French War Office and the enclosure of a summary of firing trials on 120 pound plates and informing Stern that he was passing the information on to the authorities in France. 1p

STERN: 2/17/30 1940 Jun 17

Manuscript note by Lt Kenneth P Symes, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, asking if a summary of firing trials connected with an order made on behalf of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour should be passed to the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London with a manuscript note by Stern stating that that was not necessary. 1p

STERN: 2/18/1-33 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, 1940 Feb-Sep

STERN: 2/18/1 1940 Feb 16

Memorandum by the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply of an interview with Stern at which they discussed the progress in research of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and Stern's proposal that an order be placed for one hundred of his Committee's tanks by the Army Council. 2pp

STERN: 2/18/2 1940 Feb 16

Memorandum by Stern describing the progress in research of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and advocating that an order be placed by the General Staff and Army Council for one hundred of his Committee's tanks. 4pp

STERN: 2/18/3 1940 Feb 19

Cover letter from the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply to Stern, relating to the enclosure of a memorandum by Burgin of a meeting between them of 16 Feb 1940 and his hope that the account accurately represented their discussions. 1p

STERN: 2/18/4 1940 Mar 9

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Secretary of State for War, tracing his personal connections with tank design and production, deploring the loss by the UK of the lead in mechanical warfare and criticising the elimination from the Tank Board of civilians like Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/5 1940 Mar 18

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, expressing his disappointment at the decision of a Cabinet meeting on tanks to defer a decision on placing an order for the TOG 1 tank and containing proposals for a reconstituted Tank Board. 3pp

STERN: 2/18/6 1940

Extract from History of the Ministry of Munitions, Vol 12, Part 3, Tanks, (1920), page 67, relating to the establishment and composition of the Tank Board in Aug 1918. 1p

STERN: 2/18/7 1940 Apr 2

Letter from Stern to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, deploring the lack of progress and lack of civilian involvement in tank design since the end of World War One and advocating the creation of a reconstituted Tank Board. 2pp

STERN: 2/18/8 1940 Apr 29

Report by Stern of interviews between himself and Lt Gen Laurence Carr, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Stern and the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, in the course of which Carr informed Stern that the order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply had been turned down by the Military Co-ordinating Committee, of the War Cabinet because Burgin had said that the order would interfere with the future development of tanks and Burgin suggested that his attitude had been incorrectly represented. 2pp

STERN: 2/18/9 1940 May 15

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply briefly setting out the remit and composition of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and listing documents enclosed with the original letter. 1p

STERN: 2/18/10 1940 May 21

Note by Stern of a conversation with Mr Sellar, Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, relating to a misunderstanding on the part of Morrison that the remit of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply was to produce drawings rather than prototype models. 1p

STERN: 2/18/11 1940 May 21

Memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply advocating the immediate setting up of a Tank Board and the separation of the Mechanical Transport and Tank Department of the Ministry of Supply and castigating the failure of those holding responsibilty to plan and develop mechanical warfare, in contrast with the position of armament manufacture in the totalitarian states. 1p

STERN: 2/18/12 1940 May 21

Memorandum from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, summarising the objectives and progress of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and denying that an order for his Committee's tank would interfere with existing tank production. 1p

STERN: 2/18/13 1940 May 21

Note by Stern of the persons present at an interview between himself and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply at the House of Commons, 21 May 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/18/14 1940 May 21

Report by Stern of an interview between himself and the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, at the House of Commons at which Stern recommended the appointment of a Tank Board and raised the question of whether an order for one hundred tanks from the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply would be placed if the pilot trial were a success. 1p

STERN: 2/18/15 1940 May 24

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, criticising the design of the Infantry Tank Mark IV partly on grounds of the fire danger posed by its petrol motor and advocating that production be delayed pending independent tests. 1p

STERN: 2/18/16 1940 May 28

Memorandum containing a detailed breakdown of the cost of jigs and special tools required for production of the tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and estimating the total as £30,000. 2pp

STERN: 2/18/17 1940 May 28

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, revising an earlier estimate of the cost of jigs and special tools required for production of the tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, given in a letter of 24 May 1940, from £50,000 down to £30,000. 1p

STERN: 2/18/18 1940 May 30

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him of the setting up of a Tank Board and advising him that production of the Infantry Tank Mark IV was being left open in view of the existing situation. 1p

STERN: 2/18/19 1940 May 31

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, congratulating him on the choice of the members of the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/18/20 1940 Jun 13

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, complaining that he had not been given an appointment by Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman, Tank Board to appear before the Board since its establishment on 30 May 1940 and referring to a statement that he had intended to present to the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/18/21 1940 Jun 13

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply relating to the enclosure of a letter and memorandum sent by him to Morrison on 28 May 1940 concerning the estimated production cost of the tank of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/22 1940 Jun 17

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern, regretting that Stern had been unable to present a statement signed by the members of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Tank Board and informing him of the appointment of a new Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/23 1940 Jun 19

Letter from Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, pointing out the apparent absence of previous knowledge of tanks amongst the members of the recently appointed Tank Board and the failure of the Tank Board to consult the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and recommending that future appointments of individuals and bodies be made in consultation with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/24 1940 Jun 20

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply expressing his concern at a report that the Government had decided to reduce an order for the 600 horse power Paxman-Ricardo engine, originally designed for the TOG 1 tank, from six hundred engines to eighty and that the surplus was to be scrapped. 1p

STERN: 2/18/25 1940 Jun 24

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/26 1940 Jun 25

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, expressing his gratitude at being informed in a letter of 24 Jun 1940 that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

STERN: 2/18/27 1940 Jun 24

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply informing him that the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence had decided that the Tank Board should study plans for a heavy tank, taking into account the proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. The phrase in the letter referring to the act of deciding on the part of the Prime Minister is underlined in manuscript by Stern. 1p

STERN: 2/18/28 1940 Jun 25

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern, informing him in response to his letter of 20 Jun 1940 concerning the report of the scrapping of surplus parts of the 600 horse power Paxman-Ricardo engine, originally designed for the TOG 1 tank, that few excess components had in fact been manufactured and all the surplus was to be retained until it was clear that it was not required. 1p

STERN: 2/18/29 1940 Jul 23

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern informing him that on the recommendation of the Tank Board, no immediate expenditure on production capacity could be allowed for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, that pilot trials of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks should first continue and that armour plate reserved by the Admiralty for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks had been diverted to other urgent requirements. 1pp

STERN: 2/18/30 1940 Aug 5

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply notifying him that the trials of the TOG 1 tank were anticipated to be held in Aug 1940 and those of TOG 2 in Oct 1940 and expressing his concern about the refusal of the Tank Board to make copies of its minutes available to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the absence of technical discussion at the meetings of the Tank Board. 1p

STERN: 2/18/31 1940 Aug 31

Note from Stern's Private Secretary to A A Part, Private Secretary of the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, confirming that Stern would attend a meeting with Morrison in early Sep 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/18/32 1940 Sep 6

Letter from Stern to the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, drawing his attention to an article in The Times, 6 Sep 1940 on the subject of the need for bold and large scale planning in tank design and questioning whether the Minister thought the Tank Board answered this need. 1p

STERN: 2/18/33 1940 Sep 10

Letter from the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply to Stern congratulating him on the impending trials of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, emphasising the separate functions of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply and the Tank Board, regretting Stern's criticism of the personnel and functions of the Tank Board and informing him that design responsibilty for the proposed amphibious tank was to rest with Charles James William Hopkins, Director of Naval Land Equipment, Ministry of Supply and Capt Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, under Morrison's direction. 1p

STERN: 2/19/1-92 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, 1940 Oct-1942 Feb

STERN: 2/19/1 1940 Oct 10

Note by R H Adey, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to J Reade, Ministry of Supply, confirming that Stern was to show a film of the TOG 1 tank to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply at the Ministry of Supply on 14 Oct 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/19/2 1940 Oct 10

Note from Stern to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, thanking him for agreeing to attend the showing of a film of the TOG 1 tank at the Ministry of Supply on 14 Oct 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/19/3 1940 Oct 14

Note by Stern of a telephone message from J Reade, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, explaining that he would not be able to attend the showing of a film of the TOG 1 tank at the Ministry of Supply on 14 Oct 1940, together with the suggestion that the showing should go ahead anyway for the benefit of the other senior members of the Minstry of Supply who had been invited. 1p

STERN: 2/19/4 1940 Oct 15

Note from R H Adey, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry to J Reade, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply confirming the time and date of an appointment for Stern with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply on 17 Oct 1940. 1p

STERN: 2/19/5 1940 Oct 15

Note between R H Adey, Secretary, the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry and J Reade, Secretary to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply varying the precise time of an appointment for Stern with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply on 17 Oct 1940. 1p

STERN: 2 Papers relating to Stern's service with the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939-1943

STERN: 2/1/1-6 Bound volumes of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Jul-1943 Apr

STERN: 2/2/1-5 Bound volumes of correspondence, minutes and memoranda relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. Labelled 'Duplicate set', 1939 Jul-1943 Apr

STERN: 2/3/1-3 Bound volumes of minutes of Committee meetings and official meetings of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Sep-1942 Jan

STERN: 2/4/1-135 Correspondence and reports relating to work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1939 Jul-1940 Dec

STERN: 2/5/1-97 Correspondence and reports relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1941-1942

STERN: 2/8/1-4 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, 1939 Sep-Dec

STERN: 2/9 Papers relating to the enquiry of Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply to determine Stern's position in relation to tank development, 1939 Sep-1942 May

STERN: 2/10 Correspondence relating to the design, armour, armament and testing of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, including a report by Stern summarising development of the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks and design considerations for the TOG 3 tank, 1940 Jun-1941 Apr

STERN: 2/11 Papers relating to administration of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, including expenditure for the TOG 1 and TOG 2 tanks, 1939 Jun-1942 Dec

STERN: 2/13 Correspondence and a note of an interview between Stern and Gen Sir Maurice Grove Taylor, Senior Military Advisor to the Ministry of Supply, 1940 Oct-1941 Jan

STERN: 2/14/1-4 Papers relating to the procurement of B-18 bombers by the British Air Ministry Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1938

STERN: 2/15/1-40 Papers relating to a visit by a mission of the Ministry of Supply including representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply to France, 25 Nov-1 Dec 1939 to study new and existing French tank designs, 1939 Nov-Dec

STERN: 2/16 Papers relating to French tanks, including a specification of the French Char B tank and a list of the weights of French tanks, 1939 Nov

STERN: 2/17/1-30 Papers relating to the request of the French War Office for sample plates of tank armour, 1940 Jan-Jun

STERN: 2/18/1-33 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Minister of Supply, 1940 Feb-Sep

STERN: 2/19/1-92 Correspondence and notes relating to Stern's official contacts with the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, Minister of Supply, 1940 Oct-1942 Feb

STERN: 2/20/1-40 Official correspondence and notes of interviews between Stern and Sir James Lithgow, Chairman, Tank Board, 1940 Dec-1941 Jul

STERN: 2/21/1-28 Papers relating to Stern's official contacts with Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War Office, 1941 Jan-Aug

STERN: 2/23/1-32 Official correspondence between Stern and US Col G A Green, Mission of William Averell Harriman, US Special Envoy to the UK, relating to the exchange of information about US heavy tanks and TOG tanks, 1941 May-1942 Jun

STERN: 2/24/1-18 1941 Jun-1942 Jun Official papers relating to the US Heavy Tank T1

2/25/1-14 1941 Jul-1942 Jan Official correspondence and notes of interviews between Stern and the Rt Hon William Aitken Maxwell Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply

STERN: 2/26/1-14 Official correspondence and notes of interviews between Stern and H M Ainsworth, Controller of Tank Development, Ministry of Supply, 1941 Jan-Nov

STERN: 2/27/1-26 Official correspondence between Stern and Lt Gen Hon Andrew George Latta McNaughton, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 1 Canadian Army, 1941 Sep -1943 Apr

STERN: 2/28/1-2 Papers relating to the reorganisation of the Royal Armoured Corps, 1942

STERN: 2/29/1-18 Correspondence relating to the enquiry of Graham Cunningham, Controller General Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply, into Stern's position at the Ministry of Supply held at the Ministry of Supply, Strand, London, 23 and 28 May 1942; 1942 May-Jul

STERN: 2/30/1-14 Official correspondence between Stern and Sir William Scott Douglas, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1942 Jul-Dec

STERN: 2/31/1-30 Official correspondence between Stern and the Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, then Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister of Defence, 1940 Mar-1942 Nov

STERN: 2/33/1-26 Official and technical reports relating to the work of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, 1938-1942

STERN: 2/34 Bound visitors' book used to record signatures of persons inspecting the TOG 1 tank, 1940 Mar-Apr

STERN: 2/35/1-12 Specifications and drawings relating to US tanks and the TOG 2 and TOG 3 tanks, 1941-1944 Mar

STERN: 2/36/1-17 Booklets, Parliamentary reports and associated papers, 1940-1945