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Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer

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Surname: Wallis
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Barnes Neville
Gender: Male
Date: 1887-1979
Title: Knight
Places:
  • Ripley, Derbyshire
Biography: ODNB link for Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P163213 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P29621 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Barnes Neville Wallis
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers, incl material rel to airships, bouncing bomb etc
Science Museum Library and Archives
BNW
NRA 30555
2
1940-1963: aeronautical research papers
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
WLIS
See Guide 1992
3
1890-2000: papers, letters and photographs relating to the life and inventions of Sir Barnes Wallis
Yorkshire Air Museum
YAM 10
4
c1800-2012: family papers incl property records, photographs and records of the Stopes-Roe family
Surrey History Centre
9587
See Annual Return 2016
5
research papers, films and photographs
Brooklands Museum
BNW
NRA 34342 Brooklands Mus
6
1968-74: personal and general corresp files
Royal Air Force Museum, Archive, Library and Research Department
DB140-156
See Cook, Leonard & Leese, Sources in Contemporary British History, vol 2, 1994
7
c1945-1968: corresp with Sir EC Bullard
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
BLRD
NRA 26785
8
1943-44: corresp with Lord Cherwell
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
CSAC 80.4.81
NRA 16447
9
1959-74: corresp with RR Jamison rel to research projects
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
NCUACS 60.3.96
NRA 40215
10
c1957-70: corresp with Sir Harry Legge-Bourke and related papers
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
MS 742
NRA 30441 Legge-Bourke
11
1958-78: corresp with Jack Morpurgo
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See Accessions to Repositories 1983
12
1956-74: corresp with Sir Geoffrey Taylor
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
CSAC 67.5.79
NRA 22889
13
1938-50: corresp with Sir Henry Tizard
Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents
HTT
NRA 24549 Tizard
14
1963-1980: unpublished biography of Barnes Wallis and rel papers
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
HREN
15
1939: letter while at Vickers-Armstrong to Leo d' Erlanger concerning stressed skin versus geodetic construction of aircraft
Science Museum Library and Archives
ARCH: BNW
See Annual Return 2009
16
c1938-2023: This record has no title
Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Wallis, Lady Mary Frances, (1904-1986), noblewoman
wife
Family