From: Tim Bradshaw
There is a paper, by Flowers, in the Annals of the
History of Computing
which discusses a lot of this. I am not sure if it's available online
Yes:
http://www.ivorcatt.com/47c.htm
(It's also available behind the IEEE pay-wall.) That issue of the Annals (5/3)
has a couple of articles about Colossus; the Coombs one on the design is
available here:
http://www.ivorcatt.com/47d.htm
but doesn't have much on the reliability issues; the Chandler one on
maintenance has more, but alas is only available behind the paywall:
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/1983/03/man1983030260-abs.html
Brian Randell did a couple of Colossus articles (in "History of Computing in
the 20th Century" and "Origin of Digital Computers") for which he
interviewed
Flowers and others, there may be details there too.
Noel