GB 0099 KCLMA Metcalfe - METCALFE, Dr Hugh (1928-2002)

2 boxes and one file or 0.025 cubic metres

GB 0099 KCLMA Metcalfe 1945-1992 Collection level (Fonds) 2 boxes and one file or 0.025 cubic metres Metcalfe , Hugh , 1928-2002 , weapons engineer and historian

Born 1928; educated at Harrow County Grammar School and Imperial College London; National Service with RAF Airborne Radar Service, 1946-1948; joined Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1951; helped develop the Bloodhound Surface-to-Air Missile, 1957; Chief Aerodynamicist, Bristol Aeroplane Company, 1958; worked on development of Rapier Surface-to-Air Missile, 1971; Group Director, Naval Weapons, Hawker Siddeley, 1978; Managing Director, Hawker Siddeley's Bristol site, 1980; Managing director, Hawker Siddeley's Hatfield site, 1981; Director of British Aerospace, 1982; Deputy Chief Executive, British Aerospace, 1984-1988; Gold Medal of Royal Aeronautical Society, 1984; served on Council of the Society of British Aerospace Companies; President of Royal Aeronautical Society, 1989; Chairman of Bristol Heritage Trust Aero Collection, 1992; died 2002.

Placed in centre by the family in two accessions, May 2003 and Dec 2004.

Papers of Dr Hugh Metcalfe on guided weapons, 1918-1959, including lecture by Metcalfe, 'From Rheintochter to Rapier: An Outline History of the Development of Anti-Aircraft Surface-to-Air Missile Systems', 1918-1959; delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 24 Nov 1992, with later additions including expansion of the text, extracts from related reports, detailed bibliography, archive material and Metcalfe's research papers [c1990] on the early history and evolution of guided weapons including photocopies of original minutes, working party papers and other material relating to guided weapons, [1945-1961] and articles, draft papers and transcripts of lectures on the subject of the history of guided weapons.

Original order

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research

use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees

of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of
Archives and Information Management, King's College London.

English

No additional finding aids.

Compiled by James Pugh, March 2004; revised by Sarah Drewery. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Mar 2004; Jun 2008. Metcalfe , Hugh , 1928-2002 , weapons engineer and historian Military equipment Missiles Royal Aeronautical Society Weapons Equipment

Placed in centre by the family in two accessions, May 2003 and Dec 2004.

Papers of Dr Hugh Metcalfe on guided weapons, 1918-1959, including lecture by Metcalfe, 'From Rheintochter to Rapier: An Outline History of the Development of Anti-Aircraft Surface-to-Air Missile Systems', 1918-1959; delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 24 Nov 1992, with later additions including expansion of the text, extracts from related reports, detailed bibliography, archive material and Metcalfe's research papers [c1990] on the early history and evolution of guided weapons including photocopies of original minutes, working party papers and other material relating to guided weapons, [1945-1961] and articles, draft papers and transcripts of lectures on the subject of the history of guided weapons.

Original order

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research

use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees

of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of
Archives and Information Management, King's College London.

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English

No additional finding aids.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels