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TAYL/A/41
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Misc. items of biographical interest
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- 1934–35, 1943 (Creation)
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Includes a letter from J.L. Paton, addressed to 'Dear Geoffrey of yore', 1934, letters from E.H. Lamb, and W.R.M. Lamb, thanking Taylor for his obituary notice of their father, Sir Horace Lamb, in Nature, 1935, letter from H.E. Wimperis, 1935, letter from Director-General, Petroleum Warfare Department, informing Taylor of the first successful use of the device FIDO to disperse fog on airfields, and thanking him for his work which was `a major factor', December 1943.
See Batchelor, Memoir, p.604 for later applications of this work.
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See C.39-C.43 for reports and papers prepared by Taylor for Petroleum Warfare Department in 1943.