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THE Lord President of the Council, with the approval of the Prime Minister, has appointed an Engineering Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Hankey to advise the Government upon engineering questions connected with the war effort and in particular: βTo consider how the resources of the engineering profession can best be utilized in connexion with the war work of Government departments, and to nominate engineers who might suitably be invited to undertake particular tasks. To suggest means of improving or supplementing the methods adopted by Government departments for utilizing engineering science for war purposes. To advise on problems referred to them in connexion with the development of new engineering devices, and to advise on methods of bringing such devices speedily into production, and on means of meeting new war requirements in the engineering field. To examine new ideas or devices in engineering likely to assist the war effort, to test their technical validity, and to bring to the notice of the Government those which appear to merit further consideration by the department concerned.β
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Advisory Committee on Engineering in Warfare. Nature 147, 538 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147538a0
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