SZ/MOS(2) - Ministry of Supply, Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development
Reference code
SZ/MOS(2)
Level of description
Series
Title
Ministry of Supply, Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development
Date/s
1956-1959
Quantity & Format
2 boxes
Subject
Military readiness
Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development
Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development
Scope and content
Minutes, papers and correspondence, 1956-1959.
The Land Mine Detection Sub-Committee was established in 1948 under the chairmanship of Dr F.J. Wilkins of the Ministry of Supply "To consider research into methods of detecting land mines and to initiate new lines of attack... To examine advances in scientific knowledge or technique which might have an important bearing on the problem of land mine detection [and] to report to the Land Mine Defence Co-ordinating Committee".
The Sub-Committee came into being as a result of discussion of the problem of detection of land-mines by the Physics of Armaments Committee, and a paper that SZ wrote on the subject. SZ was appointed a member of the Sub-Committee and the greater part of the voluminous correspondence and the file of documents in this series is devoted to work carried out under his direction on its behalf. This research focussed on investigating the capacity of dogs to detect buried explosives. The experiments themselves were designed and supervised by Drs J.T. Eayrs and E.H. Ashton of the Department of Anatomy, Birmingham University.
File SZ/MOS(2)/4 consists of an account of a visit made by SZ to the United States in 1952 to meet researchers conducting similar experiments there.
An MS list of the contents of File SZ/MOS(2)/3 is available for consultation in the Archives Department.
The Land Mine Detection Sub-Committee was established in 1948 under the chairmanship of Dr F.J. Wilkins of the Ministry of Supply "To consider research into methods of detecting land mines and to initiate new lines of attack... To examine advances in scientific knowledge or technique which might have an important bearing on the problem of land mine detection [and] to report to the Land Mine Defence Co-ordinating Committee".
The Sub-Committee came into being as a result of discussion of the problem of detection of land-mines by the Physics of Armaments Committee, and a paper that SZ wrote on the subject. SZ was appointed a member of the Sub-Committee and the greater part of the voluminous correspondence and the file of documents in this series is devoted to work carried out under his direction on its behalf. This research focussed on investigating the capacity of dogs to detect buried explosives. The experiments themselves were designed and supervised by Drs J.T. Eayrs and E.H. Ashton of the Department of Anatomy, Birmingham University.
File SZ/MOS(2)/4 consists of an account of a visit made by SZ to the United States in 1952 to meet researchers conducting similar experiments there.
An MS list of the contents of File SZ/MOS(2)/3 is available for consultation in the Archives Department.
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