Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and successor: Directorate of Tube Alloys and successor: Anglo-Canadian Joint Project Reports

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Reference: AB 2
Title: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and successor: Directorate of Tube Alloys and successor: Anglo-Canadian Joint Project Reports
Description:

This series contains technical and progress reports, lectures and papers written by members of the Anglo-Canadian Joint Project at Montreal and Chalk River, reports of visits to other scientific establishments, and progress reports of the project's various decisions.

The reports in this series were written by the Montreal Team, beginning in February, 1943, and continuing until September, 1946, when Dr. Cockcroft handed over his responsibilities to Mr. W.B. Lewis and the Joint Project ended. At the end of the list is a miscellaneous selection of unnumbered papers and lectures which have not been found on subject files.

As committees discussed the same reports under different references, an index of cross-references is included together with notes on the prefixes used in the report numbers as AB 2/873. AB 2/874-915 forms a small supplementary list.
Date: 1941-1946
Arrangement:

The collection of reports is not complete.

In some reports, code numbers have been used for the chemical elements; these numbers are a combination of the last figure of the atomic number and the last figure of the mass number, e.g. 92U233 = 23, 94PU239 = 49.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 924 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

In November 1942, an agreement was signed to establish a joint Canadian-British Laboratory in Montreal under the administration of the National Research Council. In December, 1942, the joint Laboratory was established at 3470, Simpson Avenue, Montreal, under the directorship of Dr. H.H. Halban, and in March, 1943, moved to the University of Montreal. In April, 1944, an agreement for the construction of a heavy water plant as a joint U.S.-U.K.-Canadian enterprise was made; Dr. John Cockcroft was appointed director and more staff was recruited from both U.K. and Canadian sources. In October, 1945, the team moved to Chalk River.

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