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Expand 1 - Executive1 - Executive
Expand 2 - Administrative2 - Administrative
Expand 3 - Financial3 - Financial
Expand 4 - Operational: Shipbuilding4 - Operational: Shipbuilding
Expand 5 - Operational: Hydraulics and Engineering5 - Operational: Hydraulics and Engineering
Expand 6 - Operational: Armaments6 - Operational: Armaments
Expand 7 - Variable Speed Gear Department7 - Variable Speed Gear Department
Collapse 8 - Research and Development8 - Research and Development
Expand 1 - Research Department meetings papers1 - Research Department meetings papers
Expand 2 - Research Department quarterly reports2 - Research Department quarterly reports
Expand 3 - Research and Development Division annual reports3 - Research and Development Division annual reports
4 - Lists of reports and memoranda issued by Vickers Armstrongs Ltd
Expand 5 - Research Department reports (R reports)5 - Research Department reports (R reports)
Expand 6 - Research Department memoranda files6 - Research Department memoranda files
Expand 7 - Research Department memoranda7 - Research Department memoranda
Expand 8 - Research Department memoranda (K series)8 - Research Department memoranda (K series)
9 - Research Department reports relating to Zenith mountings (Z series)
Expand 10 - Design Department reports and sketches10 - Design Department reports and sketches
Expand 11 - Various reports11 - Various reports
12 - Research Division technical summaries
Expand 13 - Tractor Research Department reports13 - Tractor Research Department reports
Expand 14 - Reports of visits14 - Reports of visits
Expand 15 - Research Department papers15 - Research Department papers
16 - Barrow Works reports relating to MC/DP Equipment Vertical Fan Design
17 - Vickers Group of Companies list of research and development projects
18 - 'Research and Development Division Management Plan 1966 & 1967'
Expand 19 - Monthly reports on Research and Development on Remote Power Control (RPC) Systems19 - Monthly reports on Research and Development on Remote Power Control (RPC) Systems
Expand 20 - Admiralty RPC Panel meetings 20 - Admiralty RPC Panel meetings
Expand 21 - Admiralty RPC Panel papers21 - Admiralty RPC Panel papers
Expand 22 - Proceedings of the RPC Panel22 - Proceedings of the RPC Panel
Expand 23 - Remote Power Control (RPC) reports23 - Remote Power Control (RPC) reports
Expand 24 - Reports on German tanks24 - Reports on German tanks
25 - New Naval Medium Calibre Dual Purpose Equipment: minutes of Panel 6 meetings
Collapse 26 - Miscellaneous background material26 - Miscellaneous background material
1 - Description and instructions for 2 inch ML Trench Howitzer Mark I (50 lb stick bomb)
2 - Vickers Ltd depth charge specification
3 - Description and spare part list of Thorneycroft Bomb Thrower for 'D' Pattern Depth Charges Mark II
4 - Patent specification no. 125475 for 'Improvements in mortars for throwing projectiles'
5 - Amended patent specification no. 129376 for 'Improvements in or relating to guns for discharging projectiles by gases supplied thereto under pressure'
6 - Cotton Powder Company Ltd publicity leaflet on grenades
7 - Particulars of guns in Spanish service
8 - Papers relating to Delamare Maze's application of the nozzle principle to guns
9 - Ordnance Committee report on guns and ammunition captured from the Boers
10 - Handbook for Ordnance QF 1.59 inch Mark II/L
11 - 'Report on particulars of a long range gun obtained from German deserter'
12 - Papers relating to muzzle brakes
13 - 'Cartridges for Military Rifles and Machine Guns'
14 - 'A New Alloy: Recent Discovery by Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs Limited'
15 - 'The "Vickers" Improved Clinometer'
16 - Description of High Velocity Parachute
17 - Description of Bomb HE 20lb, MArk 1/A (Cooper Bomb)
18 - The Vickers-Armstrongs 37mm Aircraft Automatic Gun
19 - 'An Analysis of the Naval AA Fire Problem'
20 - Papers relating to percussion primers
21 - Drawing of Tallboy bombs
22 - Correspondence and papers regarding the manufacture of cartridge cases for 20mm guns
23 - Specification and drawings for 29mm Spigot Mortar
24 - Strip-Wound High-Pressure Vessels publicity leaflet
25 - British Naval Gunnery Mission to Germany Report No. 3: German Naval Gun Mounting Design & Practice
26 - British Naval Gunnery Mission Report No. 4: The Remote Power Control of Guns in the German Navy'
27 - Papers relating to American gun mountings
28 - 'Notes on Guns and Howitzers in the Field'
29 - 'Diagrams of Multi-Axis Mountings with Explanatory Notes'
Expand 9 - Public Relations and Marketing9 - Public Relations and Marketing
Expand 10 - Trade Unions10 - Trade Unions
Expand 11 - Various societies and organisations11 - Various societies and organisations

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