Royal Air Force
Found in 246 Collections and/or Records:
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 01 Jan 1922 - 31 Jul 1922
General Correspondence and Papers: Correspondence with David Lloyd George, Prime Minister and Arthur Balfour, Lord President of the Council on Washington Conference on naval armaments; Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard (2) on the Naval Air Service and Admiralty-Air Ministry relations; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (3); Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty on naval aviation; memo by WSC on "The Air Force in Relation to the Army and Navy".
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 09 Jul 1935 - 09 Dec 1935
Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence with Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID; F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) (2); Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (later Lord Swinton), Sec. of State for Air, on the expansion of the RAF, war industrial organisation and anti-aircraft defence and research; A P Rowe, Joint Secretary, ADR Sub-Committee on infra-red detection (2).
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Apr 1935 - May 1935
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jun 1935 - Dec 1935
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 01 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jun 1936 - Nov 1936
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 27 Feb 1936 - 20 Dec 1936
Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence with F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) on air defence, including copies of Lindemann's correspondence with Henry Tizard, and Lord Swinton, the Secretary of State for Air file also includes letter from Robert Watson Watt on his work on radio direction finding (R.D.F. later Radar).
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Mar 1936 - Dec 1936
Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Draft memoranda by WSC on aerial mines; the relative strength of the RAF and the German Air Force and invasion by air.
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Mar 1937 - Jul 1937
Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence and notes Correspondence with Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (2); notes by F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) on German air strength; letter from Captain George Wrisberg, War Office on anti-aircraft gunnery.
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jan 1937 - Oct 1937
Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 07 Feb 1938 - 30 Oct 1938
Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence with Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (3); Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air (7).
Official: Munitions., 21 May 1917 - 31 Dec 1917
Official: Prime Minister: Air Operations in Britain and North-West Europe, 1940-45: proofs of mainly contemporary despatches and reports for publication, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"]., Jun 1946 - Sep 1948
Official: Treasury: Committee on navy, army and air force expenditure report; prepared by 1st Lord Colwyn [earlier Sir Frederick Smith], 1st Lord Chalmers, and 1st Lord Bradbury., Dec 1925
Official: Treasury: correspondence., 01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
Official: Treasury: correspondence., 11 Jan 1926 - 16 Jul 1926
Official: Treasury: correspondence mainly from WSC (carbon copies)., 17 May 1925 - 31 Dec 1925
Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing the air estimates for 1927-1928., 17 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
Correspondents include: Secretary of State for Air [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood]; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Philip Sassoon [Under-Secretary of State for Air].