A.E.D.B. Experimental Engineering Reports

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I'm looking for A.E.D.B. report "E160 - Bracket - Magnetic Compass". This was, I'm guessing, the installation for a compass in the driving compartment of a Canadian G.M. Fox armoured car. Does anyone have access to this or point me to where I might find it?

[Grant Bowker]

Not to take away from the original request, but does anyone have any idea whether the individual reports such as the one referred to survive in a group in the National archives or otherwise? There would be a goldmine of information in the individual reports based on the reports listed in the AEDB Design Record (8 vol set).
An example of the sort of thing I'm thinking of is the Experimental Engineering report for the 15 cwt GS FFW. I also wonder if some of the files of body drawings might have ended up in the same sort of place..... helpful to anyone brave enough to make a repro, if the drawings can be found.

[Roger Lucy]

The Canadian War Museum has quite a few AEDB test reports in its Research Centre, and this one is among them. DMS E160 should be in Box 20 of a collection of reports which Doug Knight cataloged.

There are other scattered AEDB reports and resplendence scattered about various DND files in RG24 at the LAC, but the overall collection has been missing for the last 60 years. The AEDB's records were transferred to DND after it was wound down in 1946. According to the 1950 Army Headquarters Report 32 “Tank Production in Canada” “All Department of Munitions and Supply Files are in deep storage in the basement of the New Supreme Court Building.” Most of the DM&S files now at Archives are of a largely routine administrative nature plus a collection of contracts