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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

METCALFE, Dr Hugh (1928-2002)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Metcalfe

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: METCALFE, Dr Hugh (1928-2002)

Date(s): 1945-1992

Level of description: Collection level (Fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes and one file or 0.025 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Metcalfe | Hugh | 1928-2002 | weapons engineer and historian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Physical characteristics:

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No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by James Pugh, March 2004; revised by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2004; Jun 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Missiles | Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment

Personal names
Metcalfe | Hugh | 1928-2002 | weapons engineer and historian

Corporate names
Royal Aeronautical Society

Places