SZ/TQ/3/1/8 - [Letter, A.F. Rawdon-Smith to SZ, 18/6/40]

Reference code

SZ/TQ/3/1/8

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, A.F. Rawdon-Smith to SZ, 18/6/40]

Date/s

1940

Quantity & Format

2 leaves Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Matthews, Bryan Harold Cabot,

Subject

United Kingdom. Air Ministry
United Kingdom. Ministry of Aircraft Production
Fatigue
Air pilots
Syncope (pathology)

Creator

Rawdon-Smith, Alexander Francis.

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Explains why Rawdon-Smith cannot assist in writing on communications for the Penguin book. Members of the Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Production wish him to be silenced. He goes on to discuss fatigue and black-out in aircraft personnel, and mentions Bryan Matthews as a possible writer on black-out. Rawdon-Smith describes his contempt for the advisory scientists to the Air Ministry.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/TQ - [Tots and Quots]
  - SZ/TQ/3 - [Tots and Quots. 'Science in war']
    - SZ/TQ/3/1 - [Tots and Quots. 'Science in war: Correspondence]
      - SZ/TQ/3/1/8 - [Letter, A.F. Rawdon-Smith to SZ, 18/6/40]

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