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AB1 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and related bodies;
Directorate of Tube Alloys and related bodies; correspondence and papers, 1939-1958

692 files

Class contains war-time and post-war atomic energy and atomic weapons research papers originating in various governmental and non-governmental bodies. These include the Directorate of Tube Alloys of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and later the Ministry of Supply; the MAUD Committee of the Ministry of Aircraft Production; scientists at ICI Ltd and various UK universities; and the Anglo-Canadian joint atomic energy project.

Subjects covered include scientific and technical developments, staffing and structures of the various organisations, minutes and papers of the MAUD Committee and its sub-committees, reports of visits, research arrangements at UK universities, contracts and patents, supply of uranium and heavy water, Anglo-American relations, the Chalk River reactor site, post-war uses of atomic energy and reports on the German effort to utilise atomic energy.

Most pieces are closed for 50 years.

AB1/1 1944-1946

General administration.

AB1/2 1943-1945

Berkeley.

AB1/3 1944

Transfer of Group from Berkeley to X.

AB1/4(A) 1944-1945

Knoxville.

AB1/4(B) 1944-1946

London Tube Alloys staff movements.

AB1/5 1943-1944

New York.

AB1/6 1944-1945

Personnel (general).

AB1/7 1943-1944

Staff list of British scientific officers attached to the British Supply Council in North America.

AB1/8 1940-1941

MAUD Committee; minutes of meetings.

AB1/9 1939-1941

MAUD Committee; papers relating to atomic bomb.

AB1/10 1940

MAUD Committee; various scientific papers and reports.

AB1/11 1944-1947

Mass spectrometers and leak detectors.

AB1/12

Number not taken up.

AB1/13 1943-1946

Procurement (general).

AB1/14 1944-1945

Diffusion pumps.

AB1/15 1944

X-Ray tubes.

AB1/16 1944-1946

Marley high speed camera.

AB1/17 1945-1949

Van de Graaff generators.

AB1/18 1940

Investigations of MAUD Committee, Cavendish laboratory unit.

AB1/19 1940-1941

Investigations of MAUD Committee, Cavendish laboratory unit.

AB1/20 1941

Investigations of MAUD Committee, Cavendish laboratory unit.

AB1/21 1940-1941

Investigations of MAUD Committee, Liverpool University.

AB1/22 1940-1941

Employment of individuals at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

AB1/23 1940-1941

Employment of individuals at Liverpool University (MAUD Committee work).

AB1/24 1940-1941

Employment of individuals at Clarendon Laboratory on work of MAUD Committee.

AB1/25 1940-1941

Investigations of the MAUD Committee at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.

AB1/26 1945-1946

Domestic legislation on atomic energy in USA.

AB1/27 1941-1942

Uranium metal.

AB1/28 1940-1941

Beams centrifuge.

AB1/29 1941

Separation of "Element 93" - Bretscher method.

AB1/30 1940-1941

G C Laurence experiments.

AB1/31 1941-1942

Heavy water.

AB1/32 1941-1942

Source "235".

AB1/33 1941

Supervision of publications on MAUD.

AB1/34(A) 1942-1944

Visit of Wallace Akers, Francis Simon and Hans Halban to USA.

AB1/34(B) 1944-1945

Directorate of Tube Alloys Chalk River Project, Canada; general correspondence with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

AB1/35 1944-1945

Directorate of Tube Alloys Chalk River Project, Canada; reports.

AB1/36 1944-1946

Directorate of Tube Alloys Chalk River Project, Canada; Sub-committee on Water Treatment: Water Treatment Committee.

AB1/37 1939-1942

MAUD miscellaneous papers and correspondence with Sir Henry Tizard and Gen H L Ismay of the Committee of Imperial Defence.

AB1/38 1944

Personnel: Sir George Thomson's Committee: staff for Tube Alloys in USA and Canada.

AB1/39 1941-1945

Personnel: Tube Alloys central organisation.

AB1/40 1943-1945

Professor Niels Bohr and Mr A K Bohr.

AB1/41 1941-1945

Arrangements at Liverpool University.

AB1/42 1942-1945

Arrangements at Birmingham University.

AB1/43 1941-1942

Arrangements at Imperial College.

AB1/44 1942-1945

Visits to USA and Canada: general.

AB1/45 1942

Visits to USA and Canada: Dr J Ferguson.

AB1/46 1942

Visits to USA and Canada: Major K Gordon.

AB1/47 1941-1942

Visits to USA and Canada: Dr Hans Halban.

AB1/48 1942-1943

Visits to USA and Canada: Professor Rudolf Peierls.

AB1/49 1941-1942

Visits to USA and Canada: Professor Francis Simon.

AB1/50 1941-1944

Transfer of Halban Team: Canada.

AB1/51 1944

Visit to USA: Dr J P Baxter.

AB1/52 1944-1945

Visits to USA and Canada: Dr A Thelwall Jones.

AB1/53 1944-1946

Permission to use and issue information obtained while working on Tube Alloy Project.

AB1/54 1945

Public statements.

AB1/55 1941-1945

Contracts: Imperial Chemical Industries.

AB1/56 1941-1945

Contracts: Metropolitan-Vickers.

AB1/57 1941-1943

Contracts: Imperial Chemical Industries and Metro-Vick-Patent clause.

AB1/58 1942-1945

Contracts: Mond Nickel Company Ltd.

AB1/59 1945

Contracts: British Thomson Houston.

AB1/60 1941-1944

Costs and accounts: Lund Humphries Sun Engraving Company F E Brown & Company.

AB1/61 1942-1945

Costs and accounts: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

AB1/62 1942

Canadian organisation: personnel.

AB1/63 1941-1942

UK organisation: disbandment of MAUD Committee.

AB1/64 1945-1946

UK organisation: transfer of Tube Alloys from Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to Ministry of Supply.

AB1/65 1941-1942

Isotope separation method "S".

AB1/66 1943

Isotope separation method "W".

AB1/67 1944-1945

Isotope separation Chromatographic method.

AB1/68 1941-1943

MS Factory, Valley, Flintshire: Metro-Vick Models Ltd. (sic)

AB1/69 1942-1945

MS Factory, Valley; drawings. (sic)

AB1/70 1941-1943

Patent control in UK, USA and Canada.

AB1/71 1942-1944

Patents: procedure for filing in USA.

AB1/72 1943-1945

Uranium metal: production plant and supplies.

AB1/73 1944-1945

Uranium metal: analysis and standard of purity, capture cross sections' specifications.

AB1/74 1944-1945

Uranium metal: properties of X metal and its alloys: physical.

AB1/75 1944-1945

Uranium metal: properties of X metal and its alloys: metallurgical.

AB1/76 1944-1945

Uranium metal: properties of X metal and its alloys: crystal structure.

AB1/77 1944-1945

Uranium metal: properties of X metal and its alloys: micro structure.

AB1/78 1943-1944

Uranium metal and its alloys: preparation of silicon alloy.

AB1/79 1942-1944

Volatile compounds of U (Carbonyl etc).

AB1/80 1941-1943

Uranium oxide.

AB1/81 1943-1945

Uranium oxide.

AB1/82 1943-1944

Uranium: Belgian Congo.

AB1/83 1943-1944

Uranium: Australia.

AB1/84 1945

Uranium: Germany.

AB1/85 1945

Uranium: South Africa.

AB1/86 1942-1943

Heavy water supplies and stocks.

AB1/87 1942-1943

Heavy water for Canadian Team.

AB1/88 1942-1944

Heavy water: hydrogen liquifaction and distillation process.

AB1/89 1943

Heavy water: centrifuge process.

AB1/90 1944

Heavy water: erection of plant in UK.

AB1/91 1945

Heavy water from Norsk hydro elektrisk kvaelstoff aktieselscab.

AB1/92 1942-1945

Graphite for use in Tube Alloy work (production analysis and supply).

AB1/93 1941-1945

Progress reports: Cambridge University (Norman Feather and Egon Bretscher).

AB1/94 1941-1944

Progress reports: Cambridge University Slow Neutron Team: Dr L Kowarski.

AB1/95 1941-1945

Progress reports: Liverpool University (Professor James Chadwick).

AB1/96 1942-1945

Progress reports: Imperial Chemical Industries Alkali Division.

AB1/97 1945

Progress reports: National Physical Laboratory.

AB1/98 1945-1946

Progress reports: British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association.

AB1/99 1942-1945

Physiological effects: curative properties.

AB1/100 1941-1945

Equipment and materials: Oxford University.

AB1/101 1942-1944

Thorium.

AB1/102 1944-1945

Thorium carbonate.

AB1/103 1944-1945

Thorium metal.

AB1/104 1944-1945

Information: explosion of bombs and blast damage.

AB1/105 1941-1945

Power plant.

AB1/106 1940-1941

Lord Cherwell's papers; miscellaneous notes and reports of uranium projects.

AB1/107 1945

Instruments: Betatron.

AB1/108 1945

Instruments: ionisation chambers.

AB1/109 1944-1945

Instruments: Van de Graaff Generator.

AB1/110 1945

Investigation of nuclear physics developments in Germany.

AB1/111 1944-1945

Nuclear physics programme and research (Cabinet papers).

AB1/112 1944-1945

Development of electronics for work on nuclear physics.

AB1/113 1944-1945

Heavy water pile: policy re erection in Canada.

AB1/114 1944-1945

Canadian heavy water pile (corrosion and anti-corrosion protective measures, including water treatment, sheathing, heat transfer measurements).

AB1/115 1944-1945

Canadian heavy water pile (corrosion and anti-corrosion protective measures, including water treatment, sheathing, heat transfer measurements).

AB1/116 1945

Canada: construction of heavy water pile.

AB1/117 1945

Heavy water pile: Canada, general.

AB1/118 1945

Large scale uranium metal plant estimates.

AB1/119 1943

Nuclear cross sections.

AB1/120 1942

Canadian papers: outgoing cables.

AB1/121 1943

Canadian papers: outgoing cables.

AB1/122 1942-1943

Canadian papers: spare copies of cables.

AB1/123 1942-1943

Organisation of Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/124 1943

Organisation of Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/125 1943

Canadian papers; report on general organisation.

AB1/126 1943-1944

List of staff: National Research Council, Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/127 1943

Committee of Power Unit No 1 (minutes and papers): Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/128 1942-1943

Anglo-American relations.

AB1/129 1943-1944

Anglo-American relations.

AB1/130 1942-1943

Canadian papers; Tube Alloys Technical Committee TA1; correspondence.

AB1/131 1943-1944

Canadian papers: uranium metal.

AB1/132 1943

Canadian papers: beryllium for National Research Council Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/133 1943-1944

Canadian papers: polonium.

AB1/134 1943-1944

Canadian papers: heavy water.

AB1/135 1945

Canadian papers; patents correspondence.

AB1/136 1944

Canadian papers: staff questions after 1 Apr 1943.

AB1/137 1943-1944

Canadian papers: general letters to and from Sir Wallace Akers.

AB1/138 1943

Canadian papers: general letters to and from M W Perrin.

AB1/139 1945

Directorate of Tube Alloys: UK general information file.

AB1/140 1942

Progress reports on work in Cavendish Laboratory.

AB1/141 1943

Cables from Canada.

AB1/142 1943-1944

Montreal Laboratory: security.

AB1/143 1942-1944

Montreal Laboratory: discussion with engineers.

AB1/144 1943-1944

Montreal Laboratory: theoretical physics division.

AB1/145 1943

Montreal Laboratory: measurements of neutron distributions.

AB1/146 1943-1944

Montreal Laboratory: experimental physics division.

AB1/147 1943

Montreal Laboratory: metallurgy.

AB1/148 1943-1944

Montreal Laboratory: chemistry division.

AB1/149 1944

Removal of Montreal Laboratory to UK.

AB1/150 1944

Montreal Laboratory: pilot plant.

AB1/151 1943-1944

Montreal Laboratory: heavy water manufacture.

AB1/152 1944-1945

Montreal Laboratory: questionnaire to UK staff on postwar movements.

AB1/153 1944-1945

Montreal Laboratory: UK Tube Alloys establishment buildings.

AB1/154 1944-1946

X Metal for Tube Alloys establishment, 1945.

AB1/155 1944-1945

Correspondence with J Dainty (Cavendish Laboratory) on experimental work, 1944.

AB1/156 1944-1946

Correspondence with E S Shire (Cavendish Laboratory) on Laboratory organisation, etc.

AB1/157 1940-1943

Correspondence on uranium with Ministry of Supply.

AB1/158(A) 1943-1944

Uranium metal; technical notes.

AB1/158(B) 1943

Lanthanum for oxide purification.

AB1/159 1942

Dr Hans Halban correspondence relating to the setting up of the Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/160 1942

British Commonwealth Scientific Office: correspondence relating to Dr James Conant and Dr Hans Halban on uranium production in USA: Dr Halban's status.

AB1/161 1940-1942

Dr Hans Halban: heavy water patent, etc.

AB1/162 1942-1943

Dr Hans Halban: patent specifications, Cambridge.

AB1/163 1943-1944

Wallace A Akers: third visit to USA Dec 1943.

AB1/164 1944

Discussions on meetings of Combined Policy Committee.

AB1/165 1945

Search for Tube Alloys site in UK.

AB1/166 1944-1945

Organisation and cost estimates of UK experimental establishments.

AB1/167 1945-1946

Design and construction of UK establishment laboratory buildings.

AB1/168 1945-1946

Electrostatic generators.

AB1/169 1943-1945

Montreal Laboratory: scientific staff policy.

AB1/170 1941

Lord Cherwell's minute to the Prime Minister relating to use of atomic energy for bomb.

AB1/171 1940-1941

Correspondence with America: Scientific Research 1 Branch Folder No 69/40.

AB1/172 1940-1941

Manufacture of uranium: hexafluoride.

AB1/173 1942-1945

Tube Alloys contract; Imperial Chemical Industries file.

AB1/174 1941

Element 94 - Dr Egon Bretscher; Imperial Chemical Industries file.

AB1/175 1940-1941

Imperial Chemical Industries MAUD file.

AB1/176 1940

Imperial Chemical Industries supply of Carbonyls by Mond Nickel Company Ltd.

AB1/177 1941

Imperial Chemical Industries snake pump.

AB1/178 1940-1942

Imperial Chemical Industries; letters and papers relating to uranium.

AB1/179 1944-1946

Canadian inventions for record. (sic)

AB1/180 1944-1945

General correspondence on British inventions in USA.

AB1/181 1941

Correspondence relating to MAUD Committee Imperial Chemical Industries contract.

AB1/182 1945

UK staff: permanent appointments.

AB1/183 1945-1946

Policy on staff for Department of Atomic Energy.

AB1/184 1945-1946

Department of Atomic Energy temporary appointments.

AB1/185 1945-1946

Return of staff to UK.

AB1/186 1945-1946

Medical group.

AB1/187 1945-1946

Staff General "A": Tube Alloys team.

AB1/188 1945-1946

Staff General "B": Tube Alloys team.

AB1/189 1945

Incoming cables for Professor John Cockcroft.

AB1/190 1941-1944

Treatment of polymer, record of.

AB1/191 1943-1945

Combined Co-ordination Committee: Polymer Control Sub-committee.

AB1/192 1940-1943

Polymer; early records.

AB1/193 1944-1946

Correspondence between Sir John Cockcroft and Professor James Chadwick.

AB1/194 1942

Patents: counsel's opinion for Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Dr Hans Halban's file.

AB1/195 1940-1945

Counsel's opinion re patent applications for nuclear inventions/processes.

AB1/196 1945

National Research Laboratories Ottawa, Canada: note book of B H Flowers.

AB1/197 1943-1945

Canadian Project.

AB1/198 1944

Berkeley.

AB1/199 1945

Transmission of reports.

AB1/200 1944-1945

Technical (Canadian). (sic)

AB1/201 1940-1945

Notebook (Dr L Kowarski). (sic)

AB1/202 1944-1945

Some engineering aspects of working pile; lectures by R E Newell.

AB1/203 1943-1944

Cambridge Slow Neutron Group; progress reports.

AB1/204 1941-1942

Patents agreements: Dr L Kowarski, Dr Hans Halban and others.

AB1/205 1945

Dr J Gueron, Pile Design Group; papers.

AB1/206 1944-1946

Scientific Advisory Committee No 38 and radioactive substances.

AB1/207 1941-1942

Correspondence between Sir John Anderson and Dr Vannevar Bush.

AB1/208 1942-1945

Tube Alloys Consultative Council: Ministry of Supply papers relating to transfer of staff to Atomic Energy.

AB1/209 1942-1946

Patents: Dr HansHalban.

AB1/210 1940-1941

MAUD Committee; Professor John D Cockcroft's correspondence.

AB1/211 1940-1941

Miscellaneous reports by Egon Bretscher and G C Laurence.

AB1/212 1942-1943

Miscellaneous Imperial Chemical Industries papers on Tube Alloys Project.

AB1/213 1945

Correspondence on choice of site for establishment and organisation policy (Professor Mark Oliphant).

AB1/214 1944-1946

Early papers on the design of an E M Separator (Professor Mark Oliphant).

AB1/215 1945

Staff for an experimental Tube Alloys station (Professor Mark Oliphant).

AB1/216 1941

Employment of individuals at Birmingham University (MAUD Committee work).

AB1/217 1940-1941

MAUD Committee investigations: provision of radium.

AB1/218 1944-1946

Montreal Metal and metal for UK.

AB1/219 1939-1940

Investigations of MAUD Committee; general papers.

AB1/220 1941

Investigations of MAUD Committee; general papers.

AB1/221 1939-1945

Purchase of radium for night flying instruments.

AB1/222 1940-1941

MAUD Committee; correspondence.

AB1/223 1940

Employment of scientists evacuated from France.

AB1/224 1940-1941

Work on MAUD Committee at Cavendish Laboratory (requisition file).

AB1/225 1940-1942

Work on MAUD Committee at Liverpool University.

AB1/226 1940-1941

Contract for experimental investigation regarding the possibility of developing a new explosive at Cavendish Laboratory.

AB1/227 1940-1941

Contract for experimental investigation regarding the possibility of developing a new explosive at Liverpool University.

AB1/228 1940-1942

Work on MAUD Committee at Clarendon Laboratory.

AB1/229 1940-1941

Heavy water, safe custody of.

AB1/230 1940-1941

Provision of uranium hexafluoride for MAUD investigations.

AB1/231 1940-1941

MAUD Committee investigations; patents.

AB1/232 1941

Work on MAUD Committee at Birmingham University.

AB1/233 1940-1941

Disclosure of MAUD Committee investigations to America.

AB1/234 1941

MAUD Committee investigations policy.

AB1/235 1940-1942

Uranium hexafluoride: requisition SR1/26/40.

AB1/236 1941-1947

Contract to render assistance and undertake investigations by MAUD Committee: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

AB1/237 1941-1944

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd Tube Alloys research: audit of expenditure.

AB1/238 1941

Report of MAUD Committee.

AB1/239 1941-1944

MAUD investigations: transfer to Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

AB1/240 1940-1944

Radium and uranium: Urgeirica and other mines.

AB1/241 1940-1941

Scientific Research 1 Branch Folder 130; patent specification of Dr Hans Halban and Dr L Kowarski.

AB1/242 1940-1941

MAUD investigations: details of expenditure.

AB1/243 1941-1942

Preliminary arrangements.

AB1/244 1942

Preliminary arrangements: proposed transfer of Halban team to USA or Canada.

AB1/245 1942-1943

Arrangements: general contracts.

AB1/246 1942-1945

Staff, general.

AB1/247 1941-1945

Oxford University; general papers.

AB1/248 1940-1942

Cambridge University: staffing detail.

AB1/249 1941-1943

Cambridge University: apparatus.

AB1/250 1941-1942

Cambridge University: reports.

AB1/251 1942-1945

Cambridge University: programme.

AB1/252 1944-1946

Cambridge University: Cyclotron.

AB1/253 1944-1945

Cambridge University: metallurgical research.

AB1/254 1944-1946

Liverpool University: bycyclotron.

AB1/255 1943

Birmingham University: Nuffield Laboratory Programme.

AB1/256 1942

Tube Alloys, Mr F Oakley; letters and papers.

AB1/257 1942-1945

Tube Alloys research: general finance.

AB1/258 1941-1945

Finance and staff: authorities for salaries etc.

AB1/259 1944-1945

Finance and staff; quarterly summaries to Treasury.

AB1/260 1945

Finance: "One Way Lend Lease".

AB1/261 1941-1943

Correspondence with USA.

AB1/262 1943-1945

USA patents.

AB1/263 1944-1945

Transfers to USA.

AB1/264 1943-1945

USA; general papers.

AB1/265 1944

Arrangements in USA: Imperial Chemical Industries staff.

AB1/266 1944-1945

Arrangements in USA: equipment.

AB1/267 1943-1946

Arrangements in USA: British Ministry of Supply mission.

AB1/268 1944

Arrangements in USA: compensation for injury, insurance, etc.

AB1/269 1944-1945

USA: finance, accounting queries etc.

AB1/270 1944-1945

Arrangements in USA: requests for books, reports etc.

AB1/271 1941-1942

Canada: general correspondence.

AB1/272 1943

Canada: patents.

AB1/273 1942-1943

Transfer to Canada: general.

AB1/274 1942-1945

Transfer to Canada: equipment.

AB1/275 1943-1944

Arrangements in Canada: general.

AB1/276 1942-1943

Arrangements in Canada: staff 1942-1943.

AB1/277 1944

Arrangements in Canada: staff.

AB1/278 1944-1945

Arrangements in Canada; reports from Professor John Cockcroft, Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/279 1941-1944

Technical Committee Chemical Panel.

AB1/280 1941-1943

Loan and purchase.

AB1/281 1941-1944

Sources of radium and uranium.

AB1/282 1945

Notes on prospecting.

AB1/283 1941-1943

Heavy water: general.

AB1/284 1944

Heavy water: construction of plant.

AB1/285 1945

Materials: monazite sands, general.

AB1/286 1944-1945

Directorate of Tube Alloys: Director.

AB1/287 1945

Reports on medical problems, etc: general.

AB1/288 1944

Tripartite Agreement, Washington 1944: drafts of Joint Secretaries Memorandum and Appendix 2.

AB1/289 1944

A Blok's visit to USA and Canada, Aug - Sep 1944; reports and cables.

AB1/290 1944

A Blok's visit to USA and Canada, 1944; letters, papers and cables.

AB1/291 1944

Tripartite Agreement; patents.

AB1/292 1944-1945

Tripartite Agreement Sep 1944: extension of agreement on patents.

AB1/293 1943-1944

Patents, inventions etc: treatment of inventions made by USA, UK, or Canadian Tube Alloy workers of one government only or in combination.

AB1/294 1943

Patents, inventions etc: proposed Anglo-Canadian Tube Alloy Patents agreement.

AB1/295 1941-1944

Cambridge University patents: proposed agreement with Dr Hans Halban and Dr L Kowarski (see AB1/673).

AB1/296 1942

Patents; Cambridge University, Norman Feather and Egon Bretscher agreement.

AB1/297 1942-1943

Patents: assignments Halban, etc: "D-K" and "M" (see AB1/674). (sic)

AB1/298 1944-1945

General: colonial - Empire arrangements. (sic)

AB1/299 1945

General: mining survey reports from Empire.

AB1/300 1944-1945

Thorium: Travancore.

AB1/301 1945

Uranium: treatment of uranium ores.

AB1/302 1945-1946

National Research Council UK Building Committee; minutes and papers.

AB1/303

Number not taken up.

AB1/304 1945-1946

Personnel: general department.

AB1/305 1945-1947

Experimental establishments - Harwell; general correspondence.

AB1/306 1942

Licences, contracts, assignment agreement: submission to Treasury solicitor.

AB1/307 1942

Assignments, agreements, licences, contracts, counsel's opinion on "A" to "M".

AB1/308 1940

Patent code "A", means and materials for production of energy by atomic disintegration: Dr Hans Halban, Dr L Kowarski, Professor Jean Fr�d�ric Joliot-Curie and Professor F Perrin.

AB1/309 1940-1947

Patent code "B", a device for the production of energy by atomic disintegration: Dr Hans Halban, Dr L Kowarski, Professor Jean Fr�d�ric Joliot-Curie and Professor F Perrin.

AB1/310 1940-1949

Patent code "D", improved method of obtaining energy from uranium: Dr Hans Halban and Dr L Kowarski.

AB1/311 1940-1949

Patent code "E", improved method of obtaining energy from radioactive materials: Dr Hans Halban and Dr L Kowarski.

AB1/312 1940-1946

Foreign patent applications filed on Cases D and E by the Centre: Dr Hans Halban, Dr L Kowarski, Professor Jean Fr�d�ric Joliot-Curie and Professor F Perrin.

AB1/313(A) 1945-1947

Raw material: beryllium, general.

AB1/313(B) 1945-1947

Use of atomic energy for power by the Admiralty.

AB1/314 1945-1946

Finance; atomic energy estimates.

AB1/315 1945-1947

Production piles: choice of site.

AB1/316 1945-1948

Finance and administration: Treasury authority for Harwell project.

AB1/317 1945-1947

Finance and administration estimates, 1946-1947: atomic energy.

AB1/318 1943-1946

Finance: E M R and D contracts: Birmingham University Physics Department.

AB1/319 1942-1947

Finance and administration: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd; research and development contract documents and early authorisations.

AB1/320 1945-1951

Finance and administration: Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company Ltd; development contract, including magnets and F M Method on "T" Project.

AB1/321 1945-1948

Finance and administration: British Thomson Houston Company Ltd; development contract including mercury arc rectifier, etc.

AB1/322 1944-1946

General Electric Company Ltd; contract for Tube Alloys research.

AB1/323 1944-1946

Combined Co-ordination Committee; papers and minutes.

AB1/324 1942-1945

Chemical Panel; agenda.

AB1/325 1942-1944

Canadian Organisation Technical Committee on Radiological Research.

AB1/326 1943-1944

Canadian organisation; progress reports.

AB1/327 1943

Canadian organisation research programmes.

AB1/328 1941-1943

Patents: Dr Hans Halban and Dr L Kowarski.

AB1/329 1944-1945

Uranium metal properties: metallurgical hot and cold rolling.

AB1/330 1942-1945

Progress reports: Birmingham University, Professor William N Haworth.

AB1/331 1941-1943

Progress reports: Imperial Chemical Industries General Chemicals Ltd.

AB1/332 1945

Progress reports: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd Dyestuffs Division.

AB1/333 1941-1945

Comments on Imperial Chemical Industries report on fluorolubricants from benzotrifluoride; research report, correspondence, graphs.

AB1/334 1945

Comments on Imperial Chemical Industries report on fluorolubricants from benzotrifluoride; research report, correspondence, graphs.

AB1/335 1944-1946

Future Systems Group, Canada; minutes.

AB1/336 1944-1946

Graphite Group; minutes.

AB1/337 1945

Graphite Group; reports.

AB1/338 1945-1946

Graphite Group Experimental; minutes.

AB1/339 1941-1946

University of Birmingham.

AB1/340 1943-1944

Patents correspondence: Montreal Laboratory.

AB1/341 1943-1945

Miscellaneous correspondence of Canadian Group, including letters of slow neutron group, Cambridge.

AB1/342 1944-1945

Patents Committee (Chalk River); papers and minutes.

AB1/343 1945

Thorium: Australia.

AB1/344 1945

Uranium: Canada.

AB1/345 1945

Uranium: Cornwall.

AB1/346 1940-1942

National Research Council; correspondence concerning MAUD Committee.

AB1/347 1940-1941

MAUD Policy Committee; minutes of first to ninth meeting. Also MAUD Technical Sub-committee; minutes of first to fourth meetings.

AB1/348 1944

X Metal Sub-committee, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd; minutes

AB1/349 1944-1950

National Research Laboratories, Ottawa: G B Cook; Book 0126.

AB1/350 1945

Dr W G Marley's visit to USA; personal letters.

AB1/351 1945-1946

Committee on Metal Production; minutes and papers.

AB1/352 1941-1943

Miscellaneous papers received from Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell.

AB1/353 1946-1950

Correspondence with Sir James Chadwick.

AB1/354 1946-1947

Retained - no description.

AB1/355 1941-1944

German activities.

AB1/356 1942-1945

Reports on German literature and correspondence.

AB1/357 1941-1942

Co-ordination of British and American effort.

AB1/358 1941-1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/359 1941-1944

Organisation of work in the USA.

AB1/360 1942-1943

Fine gauze.

AB1/361 1942-1944

Retained - no description.

AB1/362 1943-1947

Thorium: general.

AB1/363 1945-1953

Retained - no description.

AB1/364 1941-1945

Arrangements at Cambridge University.

AB1/365 1942-1945

Arrangements at Oxford University.

AB1/366 1941-1945

Retained - no description.

AB1/367 1943

Retained - no description.

AB1/368 1941-1945

Tube Alloys Technical Committee; correspondence.

AB1/369 1943

Retained - no description.

AB1/370 1943-1944

Diffusion mission to the USA.

AB1/371 1943-1944

Retained - no description.

AB1/372 1945

Retained - no description.

AB1/373 1941-1945

Chemical panel; correspondence (see AB1/324).

AB1/374 1943

Co-ordination of British and American effort. See also AB1/357.

AB1/375 1943

Retained - no description.

AB1/376 1943-1944

Co-ordination of British and American effort.

AB1/377 1943-1944

Retained - no description.

AB1/378 1944

Retained - no description.

AB1/379 1942-1945

Canadian organisation.

AB1/380 1943

Canadian organisation: personnel (see AB1/62).

AB1/381 1943

Policy discussions on processes to be used for Tube Alloys work in UK.

AB1/382 1943-1944

Extension of Mond nickel plant at Clydach, South Wales, for production of nickel powder.

AB1/383 1941-1944

Isotope separation: general.

AB1/384 1941-1943

Retained - no description.

AB1/385 1941-1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/386 1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/387 1943-1945

Retained - no description.

AB1/388 1941-1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/389 1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/390 1943-1945

Retained - no description.

AB1/391 1942

Retained - no description.

AB1/392 1942-1943

Retained - no description.

AB1/393 1941-1942

Membranes for Metro-Vickers Company Ltd models.

Records held at the Public Record Office Kew

UK Atomic Energy Authority records:

AB1 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and related bodies; Directorate of Tube Alloys and related bodies; correspondence and papers, 1939-1958

692 files

AB1 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and related bodies;
Directorate of Tube Alloys and related bodies; correspondence and papers, 1939-1958