Scope and Contents Correspondents on defence inventions and suggestions from the general public include: Richard Powell [Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] (3); Desmond Morton [Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre]; Sir Christopher Bullock [Permanent Secretary], Air Ministry; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Colonel George Turner [former Superintendent, Design Department, Royal Arsenal]; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Thoroton on the advantages of Admiralty control of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on defence inventions and suggestions from the general public include: K N Coates [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence] (4); Vernon Bovenizer, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (2); [Edward] Jerome Dyer; Harry Sellar [Private Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence] (2); P Warburton, [Assistant Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence (4); Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Elles, Master General of the...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 April 1951, House of Commons) entitled "Budget Proposals and Economic Survey" on the results of devaluation, the Government's use of high taxation to meet the cost of rearmament instead of curbing spending, and the general mismanagement of the economy. Source material includes notes by "Prof" [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann] on subjects including the balance of trade, British war debts and the inadvisability of consulting the Empire over the...

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Letter from Engineer Lieutenant Charles Hawkes, Joint Secretary, Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines, to Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, enclosing a report on a meeting with William Reavell, on the manufacture of internal combustion engines in Europe. [See CHAR 13/16/79-83 for typescript copy].

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Commission, particularly meeting with Dr George Beilby on the possibility of producing oil from coal. Fisher asks WSC to keep the letter "deadly secret and never mention it", stating that it was not a dream, nor the "outpouring of a diseased imagination". [See CHAR 13/16/85-86 for typescript copy].

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Parsons Turbine Engine developed by Sir Charles Parsons. [See CHAR 13/16/111-112 for typescript copy].

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Letter from Engineer Lieutenant Charles Hawkes, Joint Secretary, Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines, to Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, enclosing a report on a meeting with William Reavell, on the manufacture of internal combustion engines in Europe. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/155-159 for original].

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Commission, particularly meeting with Dr George Beilby on the possibility of producing oil from coal. Fisher asks WSC to keep the letter "deadly secret and never mention it", stating that it was not a dream, nor the "outpouring of a diseased imagination". [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/160-164 for original].

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Parsons Turbine Engine developed by Sir Charles Parsons. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/79-83 for original].

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. Includes press cuttings on the use of oil motors in German shipyards and a letter from Sir [Thomas] Boverton Redwood [Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty] to Fisher.

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Memorandum by Dr George Beilby [Member of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines for the Navy] on "Alcohol as Fuel". [Duplicate typescript].