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PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Director General of Future Material Projects (Naval) ("Short Fat Ships") [the short, fat design] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Sep 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Owen ("Short Fat Ships") [dispute over design] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Record of a discussion on ship design, held at Ship Department, Bath on Wednesday, 6 November 1985") [Christopher Monckton, Nicholas Owen, Rear Admiral Hugh Thompson, Brian Wall, Simon Webb, John Cox] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Times Diary: item on the Osprey case") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Owen ("Short, fat ships: warning") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Broad-beamed warship design: court case involving the Navy") [No.10 Policy Unit dossier of papers; MT interest] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Defence ("Broad-beamed warship design") [MT wants Heseltine to give the matter his personal attention] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Admiral Hill-Norton's Report on Warship Design") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Admiral Hill-Norton's Report on Warship Design") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Hill-Norton letter to MT ("Hull Forms for Warships") ["We have no doubt that the rejection of the merits of the short fat ship by the DSAC, and hence their conclusion, was unsound... We strongly recommend that our work should be examined, as a matter of urgency, by an independent committee..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Griffiths ("Hull Forms for Warships: Lord Hill-Norton's Report") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 (Hull Forms for Warships) ["... Lord Hill-Norton's report... which is very prejudiced, contains nothing new... the suggestions of impropriety... are properly a matter for the courts... principal recommendation... that an... inquiry should be established... We have nothing to hide..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Lord Hill-Norton (Hull Forms for Warships) ["Your report deals with several technical matters on which Ministers obviously cannot express an opinion without professional advice. We are prepared therefore to commission an inquiry"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation ("Hull Forms for Warships") [Lord Hill-Norton, Nigel Wicks] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Charles Hoste letter to Professor Griffiths (Hill-Norton committee) [clarification of how the committee on naval ship design was formed] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lord Hill-Norton letter to Younger ("Hull Forms for Warships") [concerns about the terms of reference of the Inquiry] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Christopher Monckton letter to MT ("Inquiry into Naval ship design") [claims that Professor Caldwell unsuitable to head the Inquiry, due to conflicts of interest (denied by MoD); "... the media may now begin publicly to reflect the feeling that the... [MoD] has something to hide"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Deputy Treasury Solicitor (letter from Frere Cholmeley solicitors to Christopher Monckton, No.1o Policy Unit) ["It is regrettable, to say the least, that Christopher Monckton has had contacts with one of the parties to this dispute; moreover, the sending of the legal documents to his work address... suggest that he involved himself in these matters in his work capacity"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("The Caldwell Inquiry") ["... inquiry into warship hull design... Professor Caldwell has concluded that he should resign... a very disappointing development"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 ("Osprey Limited and Anor v British Shipbuilders and Others") ["... the risk that one of the parties will try to involve Monckton or a current member of the Policy Unit is reduced if... there is no factual evidence which is not to be found elsewhere in the Plaintiffs' possession"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Professer Faulkner letter to No.10 ("Short fat vs long-thin frigates") [letter to the Sunday Times criticising David Giles and the Hill-Norton committee] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (Inquiry into hull forms for warships) [offer of impartial assistance from Det Norske Veritas] [declassified Jul 2016]
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