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CNH Lock

CNH Lock was based at the Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

From [1]:

I think the man's name was Christopher Noel Hunter Lock, based on this link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_War_of_Guns_and_Mathematics/8By8BAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PA121
I found some biographical notes in this http://www.broadhurst-family.co.uk/FamilyTree/Source%20Data/Others/Lock%20entries%20from%20The%20Times.pdf study of the Lock family history]:

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Thursday 13 March 1924, page 17: forthcoming marriages: MR. C. N. H. LOCK AND MISS GILLMAN. The marriage of Christopher Lock, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, son of the late Rev. J. B. Lock, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and Mrs. Lock, with Lilian, daughter of Mr. A. W. Gillman, O.B.E., and Mrs. Gillman, of Streatham, will take place at the end of April.

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Tuesday 29 March 1949, page 1: deaths: LOCK.—On March 27, 1949, suddenly, at 49, Park Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, CHRISTOPHER NOEL HUNTER LOCK, M.A., of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, aged 54.

From [2]:

Family of Christopher Noel Hunter Lock, son of John Bascombe Lock (18 March 1849–8 Sep 1921)
Christopher Noel Hunter LOCK, born 21 Dec 1894 at Herschel House, Cambridge; educated Charterhouse & Caius College, Cambridge (BA 1917, MA 1921); fellow of Caius College 1920; later with National Physical Laboratory, Teddington; died 27 March 1949 at his home, 49 Park Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex; m 26 April 1924, at St Leonard’s, Streatham, Lilian Mary GILLMAN (only daughter of Mr A. W. GILLMAN OBE & Mrs GILLMAN of Streatham; died 7 Oct 1966, aged 79, at Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester (was then of “Nimrod”, 35 Alexandra Road, Malvern, Worcestershire)) & had issue 2 sons:

Robert Christopher (Robin) LOCK, born 14 Aug 1925

John Michael LOCK, born 25 Oct 1926

From [3]: "Christopher Noel Hunter Lock, the only b* wrangler of 1917, both of who were members of the AAES and who came to the NPL to work on the dynamics of shells."

He was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. (See pg 338 of "British Scientists and Soldiers in the First World War (with special reference to ballistics and chemical warfare") by Thomas Rhodri Vivian David.)

Some of Lock's publications are hosted by Cranfield University: [4]