A LIST OF . THE PAPERS OF LORD JACKSON OF BURNLEY F.R.S. Imperial College Archives IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY University of London WILLIS JACKSON Lord Jackson of Burnley FRS List of his papers in the Imperial College Archives compiled by Jeanne Pingree 1 9 7 3 CONTENTS Introductory note v Outline of the life of Lord Jackson vi A : Personal and biographical papers 1 B : Associated Electrical Industries and Metropolitan V ickers 5 C : Imperial College 7 D : Government departments 9 E : Institution of Electrical Engineers 13 F : General correspondence, in alphabetical order of correspondents 14 - iii - INTRODUCTORY NOTE At the time of his death Lord ,Jackson was Pro Rector of Imperial College and also held a chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering which he had formerly administered. The papers listed here include the professional and working correspondence transferred to the archives from his college office, and also some personal material. They will not be available for public consultation until fifty years after Lord Jackson's death, unless previous permission to examine them has been obtained from the Secretary of Imperial College. The papers were not in their original format when they were received in the archives and it has been necessary to establish an artificial arrangement. Files, etc. which were preserved in their original order have been marked with an asterisk in the list. The abbreviation 'WJ' has been used for references to Lord Jackson. If there are only one or two letters from a correspondent the number of letters is given; otherwise there is a covering date for the period of the correspondence only. Lady Jackson of Burnley has retained a large collection of personal papers which are being listed by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre at the University of Oxford. Jeanne Pingree College Archivist. - v - Outline of the life of WILLIS JACKSON, Baron JACKSON of BURNLEY Born 29 October 1904. 1909 - 16 Rosegrove Elementary School, Burnley. 1916 - 22 Grammar School, Burnley. 1922 - 5 University of Manchester, Engineering Department. Awarded 1st class honours degree in Electrical Engineering, 1925. 1925 - 6 ?art-time lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Burnley Municipal College. 1926 MSc, University of Manchester. 1926 - 9 Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Bradford Technical College. 1929 - 30 Graduate apprentice, Metropolitan Vickers. 1930 - 3 Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Manchester College of Technology. 1933 - 6 Postgraduate student at Magdalen College, Oxford; tutor in Engineering Science to several colleges. 1936 D. Phil, University of Oxford; DSc, University of Manchester. 1936 - 8 Research Engineer, Metropolitan Vickers. 1938 Marriage to Mary Elizabeth Boswall. - vi - 1 1938 - 46 Professor of Electrotechnics, University of Manchester. 1946 - 53 Professor of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College. 1953 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 1953 - 61 Director of Research and Education, AEI (Manchester) Ltd. 1958 Received knighthood. 1961 - 7 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College. Retired as Head of the Department in 1967. 1967 Awarded life peerage. 1967 - Pro Rector, Imperial College. Died 17 February 1970. - vii - A PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PAPERS, etc. A 1, 2 Two notebooks, probably made when a student at the University of Manchester: Heaviside's expansion theorem, etc. 25 ff. Bridge measurements. 62 ff. f. 53 is dated 24 September 1923. A3 Biographical notes. Details for information to 'Who's who', etc; lists of speeches, visits, 1953 - 1969. One file. A4 Letters of congratulation on election to the Royal Society, 1953. One file. A5 'Interesting correspondence, 1961.' One file. * A6 Family correspondence. One file. A 7 Letters of sympathy about his illness, 1966. One file. * A8 Press cuttings, 1951 - 9. One file. A9 Pocket diary, 1970. A 10 - 17 Visits. Ten folders. * Africa, 1961. India, 1962. 4th EUSEC conference, 1962. EUSEC conference, Strasbourg, January 1963. Includes copy of speech made by Lord Jackson. Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, 1963. Includes speeches. Vienna, May 1968. Dusseldorf conference, October 1968. Zurich, December 1968. - 1 - A 18 - 21 Speeches and addresses. Four boxes. Typescript: some MS notes. 1950 - 62 1963 - 4 1965 - 7 1968 - 70 A 22 Speeches, house of Lords, 1968 - 70. A 23 House of Lords: correspondence with Lords Amory, Bessborough, Erroll of Hale. 1961 - 70. A 24 Parliamentary and Scientific Committee: Correspondence with Richard Fort, 1957. One folder. A 25 House of Commons: miscellaneous corres­ pondence with Ministers and Members of Parliament: Austen Albu, Edwin Brooks, Geoffrey Lloyd, Charles Morrison. 1962 - 5. A 26 - 29 Articles, papers, book reviews, etc. MS and typescript notes. Four files. 1961 - 2 1963 1964 1965 - 8. A 30 - 32 MS notes on 'Social sciences and liberal studies' 'Science policy', etc. Undated. Three folders. A 33 - 34 Printed articles and papers. Two folders: 1954 - 63 1964 - 8. A 35 Miscellaneous programmes, invitations, menus. - 2 - A 36 Photographs. One box. 1 Burnley Grammar School. Hockey teams. Photographs by T. Taylor. Mounted. 2 Visit of Captain Hugh Vivian, Director, AEI, to Metro­ politan Vickers, Trafford Park, 16 July 1953. Group photograph by the MV Publicity Department. 3 Berkeley Power Station. Visit, 17 - 18 April 1958. Booklet with photographs and map; six photographs of small exhibition on nuclear reactor metallurgy, etc. 4 Ten photographs of Lord Jackson and members of his family taken outside Buckingham Palace, probably when he received his knighthood, 1958. 5 Burnley Flower Show Committee, Poster of Flower Show, September 1, 1959; photograph of Lord Jackson ( who opened the show) with civic personalities; and press cutting. 6 Ightenhill Bowling Club. Photograph of Lord Jackson presenting the Herbert Jackson Trophy. 7 Six portrait studies of Lord Jackson by Fox Waterman Photography Ltd. 8 Three small photographs of Lord Jackson. 9 Lord Jackson: photograph of 'after dinner speech'. Lord Butler is seated on his left. 10 Thirty-eight photographs of laboratories and apparatus in the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Malaya. 11 Nine photographs of Thai students at Imperial College. March 1967, (Television picture services) issued for the Central Office of Information. - 3 - 12 Eight negatives of Swiss scenery, etc. 1958. 13 Collection of photographs on cards of information relating to the generation of atomic energy, dynamo electric machinery. 1954 - 61. 14 Photograph of A. G. Lee, with accompanying letter, 20 November 1950. 15 Two photographs of two dinner part ies (unidentified). 16 Three photographs of speakers at an unidentified meeting. Copyright. Pest Infestation Laboratory, Slough. 17 Four negatives: two copies of two studies of A 36/7, an enlargement of a detail of a photograph in A 36/4, and a copy of a photograph of Lord Jackson at the Imperial College Commemoration Day ceremony, 1952. 18 View of the Electrical Engineering building taken from the Queen's Tower, probably about 1961. - 4 - B ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES AND METROPOLIT AN VICKERS B 1 Letters, press cuttings, etc., on appointment as Director of Research and Education, 1953. One file. B 2 Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park. Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings, etc. Three files. 1951 - 7 1958 - 66 1967 - 9 B 5 Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park: postgraduate engineering courses, 1954 - 5. Three folders. B 6 AEI Overseas Ltd. Training report no. 1. Heavy electrical project - India. 14 June 1956. Typescript printed by offset litho. B 7 ZETA. Press cuttings, 1957 - 8. One file with index *. B 8 MV Staff courses nos. 1 and 2, 1959. Typescript of lecture, 3 March 1959, and programme October - November 1959. B 9 MV Summer Schools, 1950 - 58. Programmes, press cuttings, notes for speeches. One folder. B 10 MV Apprentices' Association, etc. Menus, speeches, etc., 1953 - 9. One packet. B 11 AEI and MV Parents' Day. Programmes and typescript of speeches, etc. 1955 - 9. One packet. B 12 Official opening of the Metropolitan Vickers' Trafford Park Training School, by Sir Edward Boyle, 23 September 1957. Programme; thirteen photographs of the occasion taken by the MV Publicity Department; letter from - 5 - Sir Edward Boyle to WJ, 26 September, etc. One folder. B 13 Various publications on MV training schemes, including contributions by WJ; offprint of paper given at the lEE and reprinted in the Metropolitan Vickers Gazette, 'The Ferrites; an outline of their structure, properties and applications' • - 6 - ..", C IMPERIAL COLLEGE C 1 Talks to students; lectures; speeches, etc. 1950 - 6S. One file. C 2 'Letters concerning return to Imperial College' 1960. One file. * C 3 Inaugural lecture, 8 May 1962. One file. C 4 General correspondence, 1956 - 69. One file. C 5,6 'Interesting correspondence with members of staff'. Two files: * 1968 1969 - 70 C 7 Correspondence with Sir Roderick Hill (Rector), Professor H. H. Read (Pro Rector) and Sir Patrick Linstead (Rector). 1953 - 65. Eight letters. C 8 Correspondence with the Rector, Lord Penney. * 1967 - 70. One file. C 9 Correspondence with the Secretary, Mr. M. J. Davies. * 1967 - 70. One file. C 10 Academic matters: general. 1955 - 68. One file. C 11 Production Engineering and Production Management Committee. 1962 - 3. One file. * C 12 Management Studies Committee. 1963. One file. * C 13 Science of Materials Committee. 1964 - 9. One file. * C 14 Symposium on technological innovation, 20 - 21 November