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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/290-293

Scope and Contents

Series of minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. a joint purchase by the United Kingdom and the United States of rubber for the Soviet Union; 2. aircraft production; 3. rubber for the Soviet Union; 4. attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Supply [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on filling Jefferis bombs ("Puff Balls") at the expense of "Sticky" bombs; 5. attaching a draft minute to General [Hastings] Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] on setting up "Bombard" batteries and sending bombs to the Middle East; 6. and 7. Dr [Alwyn] Crow's [Director and Controller of Projectile Development] and Colonel [Millis] Jefferis' establishments; 8. shipping woollen cloth to the Soviet Union, with WSC's annotation in typescript. [Copies; given running numbers 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, and 399].

Dates

  • Creation: 01 Sep 1941 - 04 Sep 1941

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Crown copyright

Extent

4 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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