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Papers and correspondence related to G Leslie Wates' involvement with the British Electrical Allied Manufacturers Association (BEAMA) including; 1. Electrical Association of Women journal, 'The Electrical Age', vol.5 no.7, July 1950, sent to Wates by Dame Caroline Haslett (compliments slip enclosed), which mentions G Leslie Wates on page 317 and his appointment as Chairman of BEAMA and includes a picture of his portrait by Sir Gerald Kelly, taken from Electrical Review. See also NAEST 33/13/106, personal correspondence between Caroline Haslett and Mr and Mrs Wates. 2. Leaflet titled, 'extract from Cambridge Universitry Reporter, endowment for the Professorship of Electrical Engineering, no.3733, vol.81 no.31, 7 March 1951'. The extract includes a letter sent to the Vice-Chancellor of Pembroke College written by the President of BEAMA, George H Nelson, and the Chairman of BEAMA, G Leslie Wates. The letter explains that the Chair had been established [in 1944] with the assistance of the IEE, but that the Chair had only been funded by the IEE for 5 years. BEAMA was now offering an endowment of £71,000 to fund a permanent Chair. The leaflet also lists all those firms belonging to BEAMA who had contributed towards the endowment. 3. Press cutting from The Times , date 7 March 1951 titled, '£71,000 endowment for Cambridge Chair; gift by electrical manufacturers'. 4. Handwritten speech from March 1951 about the endowment titled, 'Cambridge University'. 5. BEAMA News Sheet, vol.20 no.340, 24 October 1953 covering the commemoration of the endowment of the Chair of Electrical Engineering at Cambridge University. The newsletter has a picture of the silver rosewater dish and ewer which were a gift from BEAMA to Cambridge University in commemoration of the permanent endowment (subscription amount now mentioned as £72,000). The gift was the outcome of an open competition conducted on behalf of BEAMA by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in which the design by Mr M E Gould of Twickenham Technical College won him the first prize of £100. The manufacture was executed by Messrs Mappin and Webb Limited. The gift had been on view at the IEE for 1 week, and was (at the time of the newsletter) part of the exhibition of modern ceremonial silver organized by the Goldsmith's Company at the Royal Festival Hall. At the end of the exhibition on 12 November 1953, the gift was due to go on view at the BEAMA Dinner on 16 November before being formally presented to Cambridge University by Sir Harry Railing, President of BEAMA, towards the end of November 1953. The names of the holders of the Chair were to be engraved beneath the arms of their colleges; the first holder being Professor E B Moullin, a Fellow of King's College, which was to have custody of the dish and ewer during his period of tenure. 6. Two photographs of the silver rosewater dish and ewer mentioned above. 7. Letter to Leslie Wates from the Provost of King's College, Cambridge, fixing the date for the celebration of the arrival of the plate on 24 February 1954, and discussing dinner arrangements.