Catalogue description Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence, Air Department: Private Office Papers

This series includes records relating to the Shadow Scheme. It also contains papers of various Secretaries of State and parliamentary under-secretaries for air including Lord Thomson, Viscount Swinton, Sir Kingsley Wood, Viscount Stansgate, P J Noel-Baker, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, Nigel Birch, George Ward, Arthur Henderson, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Marquess of Londonderry, Sir Archibald Sinclair and Julien Amery; and also of Sir Christopher L Bullock and Sir James Ross, Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Air Ministry respectively.