CONFIDENTIAL

[Channel Tunnel 1957-1963] SAB [Southern Area Board] 7/3/9. British Transport Commission | Southern Area Board, Works and Equipment | General Matters | Channel Tunnel. Substantial File of material relating to the Channel Tunnel Project late 1950s.

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[Channel Tunnel 1957-1963] British Transport Commission.
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1957-1963
£1,200.00

Cobra Binder File, 23 x 35cm, a little worn, material 4 cm deep, in good condition, containing a large quantity of Letters, Reports (some marked Confidential), newspaper cuttings, press releases, trade bodies' views, a plan, tables and charts, The collection includes: Extract from Channel Tunnel Report March 1930; Draft headed Channel Tunnel summarising issues involved (engineering to military); comments on the Draft; Draft no, 2 (one of items annotated probably by Philip Warter?); handwritten estimate of costs; a substantial, 5-page, discussion of the project (addressed to The British Transp

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[Home Secretary prepares Press for Ministry of Information on eve of World War Two.] 'Private and Confidential' typescript of 'Meeting between the Secretary of State for Home Affairs [Sir Samuel Hoare] and the Newspaper Proprietors Association etc.'

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Sir Samuel Hoare [Viscount Templewood]; Newspaper Proprietors Association [Ministry of Information; E. C. Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere; Daily Mail; Lord Burnham; Daily Telegraph; Fleet Street]
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'Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.1. [London] | Wednesday, 29th March, 1939.' '(Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Treasury Reporter)'.
£650.00

Secret duplicated Home Office document, no other copy of which has been discovered (none on OCLC WorldCat, for example) and no reference to the meeting found.

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