Jonathan Gewirtz has found some, down in the Everglades. I hadn't previously been aware that there were plans for a solid booster for the Saturn.

Rand

There were no "plans" to use solids as the first stage of the Saturn 1. I have recently come into possession of a letter from Von Braun to LBJ explaining why solids were a bad idea for a first stage. Had to do with the total impluse of the booster.

This was an Aerojet boondoggle.

Not all plans come to fruition, Dennis.

Well duh

Von Braun never had any intention of using solids for the Saturn. One meeting would have disabused them of that notion.

Did I say they were von Braun's plans?

Thiokol also worked on the program and had a facility built down in Georgia.

You can find out more about that facility from this site:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/GA/Airfields_GA_SE.htm

Thanks for the information. I've updated my post to reflect it.

I do believe there were some Saturn V derivatives that would use strap on SRB's. Aerojet could have built these facilities for that purpose as well.

The "Solid" Saturn IB class vehicle with the Aerojet monolithic 260 inch motor can be seen in David Hammock's Chapter 33, Fig. 33-2 in Purser, Faget & Smith's Manned Spacecraft: Engineering Design and Operation, Fairchild Publications Inc., 1964. Payload was 60K for 5M lbs GLOW with an SIV as the upper stage.

I got my copy from the JSC Library as they were throwing them out.

An old Time-Life book has an illustration of an evolved Saturn V with SRB's replacing the first stage. It is referred to as a "Nova" booster.

There were detailed proposals for adding Minuteman first stages (4 or 8), 5-segment 120" Titan motors (2 or 4) and 7-segment Titan motors (2 or 4) to the Saturn Ib. There were equally detailed proposals for replacing the first stage with a monolithic 156" or 260" diameter solid. UTC also proposed clusters of Titan motors for the same first-stage job.

The 120", 156" and 260" solids were proposed as strap-ons for the Saturn V. Quite detailed planning and design and development went into these. A lesser concept caleld for putting the S-II second stage on top of a single 260" solid (looked like a fat "Stick").

Back when Apollo was a going concern (before 68 or so), upgrading the Saturn Ib and V with strap-ons was looking like a sure thing.