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Report entitled 'A Reassessment of the Modifications to the Red Top Fuze for Installation in Seaslug Mark 2'

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Technical note entitled 'Seaslug Mark 2 feasibility study for a replacement fuze - targets and fuze switching contours'

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Technical Note entitled 'Aerodynamic Forces and Moments on the Seaslug Mk. 2 Dart Induced by the Presence of Separing Boost Motors The Results of Wind Tunnel Tests Part 1'

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Technical Note entitled 'Aerodynamic Forces and Moments on a Seaslug Mk. 2 Boost During the Flowering Sequence'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk.2 acceptance trials, final missile performance report, round no. S2E1'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk.2 acceptance trials, final missile performance report; missile no. S2D15'

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Report entitled 'Feasibility Study for a Replacement Fuze for the Seaslug Mk.2 Missile'

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Report entitled 'A critique of the expected performance of Seaslug Mark 2 using the SW42 IR fuze'

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Report entitled 'Feasibility Study for a Replacement Fuze for the Seaslug Mk.2 Missile'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk.2 acceptance trials, final missile performance report, trial no. X3633/34'

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Report entitled 'A Technical Appraisal of the Performance Advantage of a Sea Skimming Version of Seaslug Mk.2 for the Attack of Surface Vessels and Very Low Flying Airborne Targets'

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Technical Note entitled 'The Philosophy Behind the First Ten Flight Trials in the Seaslug Mk. 2 Separtion Improvement Programme'

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Report entitled 'Final report of the Seaslug Mk.2 Fuze/Lethality improvements working party'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk.2 acceptance trials, final missile performance report, round no. S2D4'

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Report entitled 'Post-firing simulation report, round no. S2E3'

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Technical Note entitled 'An Attempt to Synthesise from Wind Tunnel Data the Aerodynamic Force and Moment Characteristics of a Seaslug Mk. 2 Boost during the Flowering Sequence'

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Technical Memo entitled 'Centrifuge/Vibration Tests - Seaslug Mk.2 Tracking Flares (TRN 253/254)'

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Technical Note entitled 'Seaslug Mark 2 Preparation of End Phase Data PDI Study for a replacement fuze'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk. 2 Ship Safety Under Conditions of Asymmetric Boost Failure'

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Technical Memorandum entitled 'Seaslug Mk. 1 Equipment Life Schedule'

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Report entitled 'Revision of the Seaslug Mk.2 Performance Study (SW 42 I.R. Fuze) Section II'

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Report entitled 'Seaslug Mk.2 acceptance trials final missile performance report, round no. S2E3'

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The Time 'Review of the Progress of Science'

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Copy of The Times Science Review

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Cutting from The Picture Post showing pictures of Edward VII on one side and George V on the other

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Signs and Outdoor Advertising

Papers, mostly correspondence, related to a Home Office requestion for information on railway sites in the London area.

Home Office request for location of marshalling yards and other railway sites

Map showing civil defence scheme at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

Scheme 2b - Welwyn Garden City

Details of underground facilities at various sites in London, together with some correspondence.

Register of Underground Accommodation - Greater London Area

Papers, mostly correspondence and reports, relating to government departments selecting accommodation for use in the event of a nuclear attack.

Earmarking of Accommodation - Government Departments

Includes 1951 draft copy of Emergency Organisation for Civil Engineer's Department, setting out the location of emergency headquarters, the number of staff to be evacuated and the location of emergency materials, together with handwritten preparation notes. Also includes maps showing the emergency organisation for the King's Cross, Stratford and Doncaster engineering districts.

Draft Regional Emergency Organisation

Plans of signal boxes from the Stratford District showing alterations to withstand attack. File list includes signal boxes at: Angel Road, Barking, Bethnal Green, Bow, Brentwood, Brimsdown, Bromley, Broxbourne, Chadwell Heath, Campbell Road, Channelsea, Chingford, Cheshunt, Clapton, Copper Mill Junction, East Ham, Enfield, Forest Gate, Gas Factory Junction, Gidea Park, Goodmayes, Harringay Park, Hackney Downs, High Meads, Ilford, Lea Bridge, Little Ilford, Liverpool Street, Lower Edmonton, Mile End, North Woolwich, Northumberland Park, Picketts Lock, Pitsea, Plaistow, Ponders End, Ripple Lane, Romford, Seven Sisters, Shenfield, Shoeburyness, Silvertown, South Tottenham, Southend, Spitalfields, Stanford Le Hope, Stepney East, Stratford, Thames Wharf Junction, Tilbury, Temple Mills, Tottenham, Upminster, West Ham, Wickford, Wood Grange and Wood Street.

Protection of Signal Boxes - Stratford District

Mostly correspondence, together with lists on the condition of air raid shelters.

Special Shelters etc - Manchester District

Some correspondence, together with lists of works installed during World War 2, shelters available and needing repair.

Special Shelters and Sidings etc - Ipswich District

Correspondence, together with lists of air raid shelters now available, converted for other uses, requiring repair or demolished.

Special Shelters etc - Doncaster District

Plans of signal boxes from the Sheffield District showing alterations to withstand attack. File list includes signal boxes at: Attercliffe, Aldam , Barnsley, Beighton, Brightside, Darnall, Dearne, Dore & Totley, Elsecar, Foxlow, Grimesthorpe, Hall Lane, Holmes, Heath, Huddersfield, Killamarsh, Kilnhurst, Langwith, Masborough, Moor Road, Mexborough, Monks Spring, Neepsend, New Oaks, Nunnery Main Line Junction, Parkwood, Quarry Junction, Court House, Rotherwood, Sheffield, Stairfoot, Staveley, Swinton, Tapton, Thrybergh, Tinsley, Treeton, Waleswood, Wath, West Silkenstone, Willey Bridge, Wincobank, Wombwell, Woodburn and Woodhouse.

Protection of Signal Boxes - Sheffield District

Mostly correspondence, together with lists of shelters and of signal boxes given blast and splinter proof protection.

Special Shelters etc - Sheffield District

Mostly correspondence, together with a list of works undertaken during World War 2.

Special Shelters etc - Nottingham District

Mostly correspondence, together with a list of air raid shelters available and of government works ordered by the Ministry of Transport.

Special Shelters etc - Peterborough District

A list, with a covering letter, of all the sites in the Eastern Region where glass in roofs is considered to be a civil defence problem. The list is organised by engineering district.

Glass in station roofs, workshops etc

Correspondence related to the storage of rolling stock to be used as Queen Messengers Convoys (for evacuation and food distribution) during war. Includes information on the stock used and the planned location of the convoys.

Queen's Messengers Convoys Storage

Plans showing the emergency organisation of the Civil Engineering Department in the Stratford District, including details of staff accommodation, location of plant, and stocks of emergency materials, together with correspondence.

Civil Engineering Organisation - Stratford District

Lists of the air raid shelters, other forms of protection and sidings installed during World War 2, and still in use when a census was taken in 1948. Together with a number of blank forms, presumably from the the 1948 census, a 1943 LNER plan of the extension to Gerrards Cross Control Office and correspondence and plans relating to the building of emergency control shelters.

Details of Air Raid Shelters amd other special forms of protection provided during World War 2

Small amount of correspondence relating to permission to demolish air raid shelters blocking the arches.

Fenchurch Street: Leman Street: Arches 93/96 Christian Street

Small amount of correspondence concerning permission to remove rail blocks at Brigg River, Lincolnshire.

Removal of Rail Blocks - Brigg River

Plans showing the emergency organisation of the Civil Engineering Department in the Cambridge District, consisting of a map showing the location of emergency stores, together with correspondence.

Civil Engineering Organisation - Cambridge District

Papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the creation of civil defence schemes for individual locations. Includes several copies of civil defence scheme booklets and a sample scheme for guidance, as well as several copies of a Railway Executive paper on civil defence schemes.

Stations, Depots etc requiring own civil defence schemes

Correspondence relating to a request by a local authority's Civil Defence Officer to address railway staff for the purpose of recruitment.

Recruitment

Correspondence relating to cost compliation and payment for government work carried out in railway workshops.

Government Work in Railway Workshops

Correspondence and reports on civil defence works completed and in progress, together with costs.

Progress Reports