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Brown, V. (includes recollections of Sir William Farren)

Paper S. 177 (994) for Seaplane Sub-Committee, Aeronautical Research Committee.
Describes tests with CQR and other anchors, by Taylor and W.S. Farren.

Prepared by Taylor and W.S. Farren for Ely Sugar Beet Factory.
Typescript (2 copies) + 1 p. MS drawing, with letter from Gordon Fowler of the Ely Sugar Beet Factory 7 Nov. 1934.

On 'spinning flight'; includes a substantial account by Farren of Cherwell's work in aerodynamics of which only part was used in the Memoir.

7 offprints.
1925a (With W. S. Farren) 'The heat developed during plastic extension of metals.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 107, 422-451. (SP I, 6)

b (With C. F. Elam) 'The plastic extension and fracture of aluminium crystals.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 108, 28-51. (SP I, 7)

d 'Note on the connection between the lift on an aerofoil in a wind and the circulation around it.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 225, 238-245. (SP III, 10)

e (With C. T. R. Wilson) 'The bursting of soap-bubbles in a uniform electric field.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 22, 728-730. (SP IV, 9)

g 'Versuche mit rotierenden Flüssigkeiten.' Ztschr. f. angew. Math. Mech. 5, 250-253.

1926a (With W. S. Farren) 'The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression.' I. Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 111, 529-551. (SP I, 9)

b (With C. F. Elam) 'The distortion of iron crystals.' Proceedings of the Royal Society A 112, 337-361. (SP I, 10)

Includes recollections, and details of Farren's piloting activities 1941-45.

Included are letters from: Sir W. L. and Lady Bragg (B/96), Lady Betty Balfour (B/95), E. A. Benians (B/95), Evelyn Bosacawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/94), Anne Chamberlain (B/97), Sir William Scott Farren (B/96), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/97), Sir David Randall Pye (B/95), Lilian Adam Smith (B/96), Denys Arthur Winstanley (B/94), Alexander Wood (B/94), P. B. Agate (B/97).

Included also at B/95 is a 4pp draft, in Lady Thomson's hand, of a speech on the history of Trinity College.