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 Fonds

The Papers of William Lawrence Wilson

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLSN
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising a memoir, a history of engineering in the Office of Works and lectures

Dates: 1952 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Thomas Newcomen Centenary Lecture, 1963, 'The Prenatal History of the Steam Engine', 1960 - 1970-10-28

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/114
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1960 - 1970-10-28
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(Untitled), 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/155-159
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/160-164
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 29 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/79-83
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/85-86
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 29 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Dec 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/111-112
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 28 Dec 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1913 - 18 Jan 1913

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/33-37
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 17 Jan 1913 - 18 Jan 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/38-42
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 22 Jan 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Dec 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/15/79-83
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 28 Dec 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Feb 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/59/42-44
Scope and Contents

Extract from an official minute by "A.M.O" to the Postmaster General [Herbert Samuel] on the technical arrangements for the telephone reporting of WSC's speech in Belfast to the Liverpool Daily Post, the Manchester Guardian and the Yorkshire Post. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/59/41.

Dates: 09 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/17
Scope and Contents Letter from General Sir Frederick Pile [Director General Ministry of Works] (Ministry of Works, Lambeth Bridge House, London, SE1) to WSC stating that he has been asked to forward a model of the 3.7 inch gun with power control and the Molins automatic fuse setter [not attached] designed by Messrs Molins of Evelyn Street [London] who were responsible for the automatic loader and fuse setter. States that "Of all the mechanical improvements made to our equipment during this war, Messrs. Molins...
Dates: 18 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1922

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/121/124
Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Brennan (Glenarthur, Netley Street, South Farnborough, [Hampshire]) to Edward Marsh asking him to arrange for WSC to follow Sir Laming Worthington-Evans and Frederick Guest in seeing his lift experiments.

Dates: 28 Mar 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 30 Mar 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/121/125
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to Louis Brennan (Glenarthur, Netley Street, South Farnborough, [Hampshire]) reporting that WSC would like to come and see his lift experiments. Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 30 Mar 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 01 Jun 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/123/1
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Gordon Daly (c/o Police Station, Holyhead, [Anglesey, Wales]), better known to WSC as L E de Mole, to WSC claiming to be associated with the invention of the train and tank ferry, explaining how he has been discharged from prison and how a firm of engineers has been paid to build his invention, and asking WSC to assist him in getting a job.

Dates: 01 Jun 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 11 Oct 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/159/57-58
Scope and Contents

Letter from Richard Alexander, aircraft, electrical and motor engineer (1 St Luke's Road, Maidstone, [Kent]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/159/59 and asking him to get "a sportsman" from among his friends to take an interest in his (Alexander's) helicopter idea.

Dates: 11 Oct 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [1928]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/159/59
Scope and Contents

Poster annoucing that an inventor [Richard Alexander of Maidstone, Kent] has devised an advanced helicopter design and needs financial help to develop it. Sent with CHAR 2/159/57-58.

Dates: [1928]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/116/158
Scope and Contents

Reprint from the Manchester Guardian Commercial: articles on Low Temperature Carbonisation Ltd. Sent with CHAR 2/116/157.

Dates: 20 Oct 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/117/46
Scope and Contents

Printed circular letter from Close Brothers & Co Ltd (7 Moorgate Street, Bank, London) referring to the reports on the process developed by Low Temperature Carbonisation Ltd [see CHAR 2/117/47 and CHAR 2/117/48] whose plant in Barnsley [Yorkshire] is now being managed by Close Brothers. Sent with CHAR 2/117/45.

Dates: 07 Nov 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/117/47
Scope and Contents

Engineer's report on the testing and operation of the plant of Low Temperature Carbonisation Ltd at Barnsley [Yorkshire]. Sent with CHAR 2/117/45.

Dates: 18 Oct 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/117/48
Scope and Contents

Printed report to Close Brothers & Co Ltd by Sir Percy Girouard on the operations of the low temperature carbonisation plant at Barnsley, Yorkshire. Sent with CHAR 2/117/45.

Dates: 19 Oct 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/117/49
Scope and Contents

Edition of the Financial Times including marked articles on Sir Percy Girouard's report on the low temperature carbonisation plant at Barnsley, Yorkshire. Sent with CHAR 2/117/45.

Dates: 10 Nov 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
 File

Visits, 1990-06

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/99
Scope and Contents

Briefings and arrangements for a visit to the Northern region, Tyneside and Sunderland, including the Swan Hunter shipyard, Tyneside and Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Blyth Valley civic centre [Northumberland]. Also includes rough notes of a meeting with the British Labour Group on the first anniversary of the European elections.

Dates: 1990-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Management Group

Whittle : file of papers relating to dealings with Frank Whittle's company, Power Jets. BT-H 'Special File no. 14750. Power Jets. Quantity Production'

 Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WHITTLE
Scope and Contents

Letters, blueprints, drawings, orders, memoranda, telegrams.

Dates: 1940-01-26 - 1941-06-04
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