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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on ammunition output. [Copy; given running number 233].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on forecasts for the aircraft production programme. [Copy; given running number 230].

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Draft minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to the Minister of Aircraft Production [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on figures of hours worked, aircraft output, and numbers of workers. [annotated copy; given running number 229].

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Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on providing [Harry] Hopkins [Special Advisor and Assistant to the President of the United States] with aircraft production figures and [Lindemann's] misgivings at the level of British production. [Copies; given running numbers 227 and 228].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a draft note to the Minister of Aircraft Production [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] on the War Cabinet receiving regular statistical reports on progress with aircraft production. [Copy; given running number 223(C)].

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Minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to Minister of Supply [Sir Andrew Duncan] on new rifles and 3.7 inch "A.A." [anti-aircraft] mountings. [Copy; given running number 215A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a misunderstanding over anti-tank rifle requirements. [Copy; given running number 203A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on kite-balloons carrying aerial mines and using them as protection at Scapa [Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland]. [Copy; given running number 197].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the Minister of Aircraft Production [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] and training engineers. [Copy; given running number 196B].

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Letter from unidentified individual [?Dr Alwyn Crow, Director and Controller of Projectile Development] (Great Westminster House, Horseferry Road, London) to F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Offices of the War Cabinet, Great George Street) on the programme for a demonstration of anti-aircraft weaponry for WSC on 11 April at Aberporth [Cardigan, Wales]. [annotated copy].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a demonstration of anti-aircraft weaponry at Aberporth [Cardigan, Wales]. [Copy].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC advocating the "bombard" anti-tank weapon. [Copy; given running number 281].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching draft minutes to the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] on the "bombard" and anti-tank weapons in general. [Copy with later annotations; given running numbers 285 and 284].

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Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC on imports and food stocks, referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 31", and fuzes for high level bombing. [annotated copies; given running numbers 288 and 289].

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Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on "De Wilde" ammunition and an increase in the establishment of Thompson sub-machine guns in an infantry division. [Copies; given running number 289A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC giving a production report for the first quarter of 1941 of equipment and ammunition. [annotated copy; given running number 290A].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the possibility of increased tank production in the United States. [Copy].

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Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on tobacco stocks and infantry tanks. [Copies; given running numbers 295 and 295A].

Scope and Contents Series of minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC on: 1. supplies of mustard, "B.B.C.", phosgene, and "D.C." gases, referring to "D.C.(S) (41) 69"; 2. dispersing ships by sending them to East coast ports; 3. possible imports in 1941 and the import forecast for April to August, referring to "I.E. (41) 72" and "I.E. (41) 70"; 4. encouraging the working of night shifts; 5. fitting ships with permanent...

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching draft notes to the First Lord [of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough, see CHAR 20/258B/190], and the Ministers of Supply and of Aircraft Production [Sir Andrew Duncan and John Moore-Brabazon, later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara, see CHAR 20/258B/191-192] on extending double-shifts. [Copy; given running number 303].

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Draft minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to First Lord [of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] on extending double-shifts from merchant repair yards to other Admiralty establishments. [Copy].

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Draft minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to Minister of Supply [Sir Andrew Duncan] on using double-shifts in factories to increase the average hours worked by production machine tools. [Copy].

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Draft minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to Minister of Aircraft Production [John Moore-Brabazon, later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] on introducing double-shifts to factories. [Copy].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on various views on the rationing of textiles, commenting on the feasibility of freeing textile workers for munitions production. [Copy; given running number 304].

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Minutes from "B", [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of State] (27 May) and "F.A.L." [F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Offices of the War Cabinet, Great George Street, 22 May) to WSC on fuzes for anti-tank mines. Typescript of annotation by WSC (25 May): "Lord Beaverbrook". [annotated copies; given running number 308].