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British Leyland Trade Union Committee

Catalogue reference: MSS.228

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This record is about the British Leyland Trade Union Committee dating from 1949-78.

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Reference
MSS.228
Title
British Leyland Trade Union Committee
Date
1949-78
Description

Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers/. Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. Oxford District : minutes, 1968-75.

British Leyland Trade Union Committee : minutes, 1968-77; correspondence; minutes of various shop stewards' committees, from 1949.

British Motor Corporation Joint Shop Stewards' Committee: minutes, 1952-4, 1958-78; correspondence, 1958-78.

Morris Motors AEF Shop Stewards' Committee: minutes, etc., 1968-70.

Morris Motors Joint Shop Stewards' Committee: minutes, 1960 and 1968-71.

National Motor and Ancillary Trades Shop Stewards' Committee: minutes, 1956-60; correspondence and circulars.

Nuffield Combine Shop Stewards' Committee: minutes, 1949-52.

Related material

<p>The Centre also holds the R.A. Etheridge papers (MSS.202), the Peter Nicholas papers (MSS.309) and Paul Worm Automotive Collection (MSS.356), both of which include material on shop stewards' organisation in the car industry.</p>

Held by
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>British Leyland Trade Union Committee, 1968-</corpname>
Physical description
1 series
Access conditions

Open.

Immediate source of acquisition

The archive was deposited in the Centre in 1981 by Mr L. Gurl through the good offices of Dr S. Tolliday.

Administrative / biographical background

The British Motor Corporation Joint Shop Stewards' Committee evolved in 1952 from the Nuffield Combine Shop Stewards' Committee. A meeting in 1967 between Leyland-Triumph and BMC shop stewards led to the formation of the British Leyland (Motor Corporation Combined) Trade Union Committee in 1968.

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British Leyland Trade Union Committee