SZ/OEMU/21/3 - [OEMU. MRC Sub-Committee on Weapons. Reports and Memoranda]
Reference code
SZ/OEMU/21/3
Level of description
File
Title
[OEMU. MRC Sub-Committee on Weapons. Reports and Memoranda]
Date/s
1941-1945
Quantity & Format
47 items Mixed
Subject
Explosions -- Physiological effect
Scope and content
Contains drafts, notes, and multiple copies of a number of papers prepared for the sub-committee, on issues such as blast in tanks, ear-drum rupture, and concussion.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
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SZ/OEMU/21 - [OEMU. Medical Research Council Military Personnel Research Committee, Sub-Committee on Weapons (Biological Assay)]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3 - [OEMU. MRC Sub-Committee on Weapons. Reports and Memoranda]
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SZ/OEMU/21 - [OEMU. Medical Research Council Military Personnel Research Committee, Sub-Committee on Weapons (Biological Assay)]
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SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/1 - Farnborough Tank Trials (Effect of blast inside Tanks), 31/7/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/2 - Note on visit to Mechanisation Experiments Establishment on August 1st, 13/8/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/3 - Note on effects of Blast on Pill-Boxes, 15/8/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/4-5 - Blast As A Factor Causing Casualties In Anderson Shelters And Among People Exposed In The Open, 22/8/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/6 - [Notes and drafts of Anderson shelter paper, undated]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/7-8 - Effect of Blast on Tank Crews, 27/8/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/10 - [Copy letter, E.W. Anderson to R.A. Graff, 3/9/41]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/11-12 - Interim Report, 11/9/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/13-18 - Observations on So-Called Blast Concussion, 20/11/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/19-24 - Rupture of the Ear-Drums By Blast, 22/11/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/25 - [Tracing of figure 7 from 110/RC444/AORG 271 paper on the use of manganese steel and duralim as body armour, undated]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/26-28 - The Relationship Between Body Size and the Lethal Effects of Blast, 23/11/41
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/29 - Note on blast from No. 69 Grenade, 27/2/42
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/30-31 - Blast Pressure and Mechanical Shock on a Gunner Inside a Pill-Box Due to Near Explosions of 66 2/3 [two thirds] 3-lb Charges of Polar Ammon Gelignite. Tests at Netheravon on 12th December 1941, January 1942
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/32-36 - Note on MRC/2/GC/CGG, 5/3/42
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/37 - Preliminary Note on the Blast Protection Afforded to the Ear by Headphones, 5/5/42
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/38-39 - The Blast Protection Afforded To The Ear By Service-Pattern Flying Helmets And By Service Headphones, May 1942
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/40 - [Letter, E.A. Carmichael to SZ, 30/10/42]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/41-42 - Comments on `Report on Casualties in A.F.V.s' (B.P.C. 42/115 by Major A.L. Chute), 6/10/42
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/43-44 - Rupture of the Ear-Drums by Blast, [undated]
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/45 - Suggestions for the Improvement of the Vehicles Used for the Collection of Tank Crew Casualties, March 1945
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/46 - The Distribution of Casualties Amongst the Crews of Cromwells and Shermans, March 1945
- SZ/OEMU/21/3/47 - Casualties Among Tank Crews in 11th Armoured Division in Operation Veritable, 27th February-4th March 1945, [undated]