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Printed items sent to WSC as gifts, tributes, press cuttings on his career etc.

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Drafts of an article by JA on Concorde, and the Labour Government's attempt to cancel its development.

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Copy of a speech by JA (as Minister of Aviation) on his joint agreement with France to build Concorde.

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Exhibition material prepared by Kenneth Knell and Professor Henry Cohen for the University of Cambridge Engineering Department on the Whittle jet engine. Also includes brochures for exhibitions on Sir Harry Ricardo and Sir Charles Parsons.

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Notes of Martin Gilbert's interviews with: Sir Herbert Creedy on his experiences of WSC at the War Office; Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill Smith on his memories of WSC during the First World War with the Sixth Royal Scots Fusiliers; Vice-Admiral Richard Bell Davies, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse and Group Captain Ivon Courtney on their memories of WSC learning to fly at Eastchurch [Kent] and his interest in the future of air warfare.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on the Basic English Cabinet committee (includes notes on the committee and notes of evidence), and enclosing a letter from the Chief of Air Staff [Sir Charles Portal] on Amery's accusation that Britain was weak in transport aircraft; Sir Stephen Tallents, enclosing his article on English as a common language; General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff [later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] on Amery's view of Britain's weakness in...

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Also includes photographs from a visit to the BAC Weybridge division [Surrey].

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Photographs from JA's tour of the works at Cricklewood [London] and Radlett [Hertfordshire], and Radlett aerodrome. Includes photographs of V-bomber escape seats, and the Dart Herald passenger aircraft.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Includes JA at a ski lodge, meeting Robert McNamara, American Secretary of Defense, visiting NASA (Saturn Complex 37) and the West 30th Street Heliport, New York. Also includes some earlier photographs from a visit to the USAF base at Hamilton, California in January 1962 (see also AMEJ 10/55).

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Also includes photographs of JA at [?] the Preston division of the British Aircraft Corporation, Warton [Lancashire].

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Visit led by General Abdulla Al-Mutlaq to sites including RAF Leconfield [Yorkshire] and the Preston division of the British Aircraft Corporation, Warton [Lancashire], particularly relating to Lightning jet fighters.

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[?] Meeting hosted by JA on the effects of rationalisation and international collaboration on the aviation industry.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Also includes photographs from [?] an earlier visit, when the company was known as Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited.

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Photographs of the aircraft shown to the delegation.

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Correspondence on arrangements for JA's media interviews, with transcripts of BBC news programmes featuring JA, on the closure of Beagle Aircraft Limited, the sanctions policy against Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], the economy and the future of Concorde.

Scope and Contents Text of a lecture by JA to the institution on Britain's military role in the 1970s, Jan 1969, including correspondence on arrangements, with Air Vice-Marshal Stewart "Paddy" Menaul, Director-General. Also includes: a RUSI case study on the TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft; a paper on men, money and war; text of a lecture by [John] Enoch Powell [to RUSI, Sept 1968, to which JA was responding], also on Britain's military role in the 1970s, with comments; report of...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Government relations with the defence industry and the attempted takeover of British Aerospace by GEC, including: correspondence with Sir Graham Day and Roland Smith, Acting Chairman and Chairman of British Aerospace; notes by John Eatwell [Economic Adviser to NK]; statement by Gordon Brown, Trade and Industry spokesman; briefing for a meeting; statement by Lord Young, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on BAe’s proposed acquisition of the Government’s...