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The papers include: Millis Jefferis's copies of M.D.1 correspondence; administration files on staffing and weapons development; research files on the development of individual weapons; Macrae's patent claims, which include original material on the development of the weapons concerned; Macrae's diaries from his time at M.D.1; some material from Macrae's memoirs, "Winston Churchill's Toyshop".

Scope and Contents Almost half of the collection is taken up with manuscript and typescript drafts of General Crawford's autobiography and this material is supplemented by his diaries running, with a few gaps, from 1930 to 1975. There are also smaller collections of papers and correspondence dealing in detail with General Crawford's important work during the Second World War on the production of tanks and other armoured vehicles and his continuing interest and involvement in this and similar fields after the...

Scope and Contents

Copies of papers written by Wallis in the course of his aeronautical research.