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NATIONAL UNION OF VEHICLE BUILDERS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/3289

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: NATIONAL UNION OF VEHICLE BUILDERS

Date(s): 1930-1980

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.37 linear metres

Name of creator(s): National Union of Vehicle Builders | London District Committee

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The National Union of Vehicle Builders was founded in 1919 on the merger of several smaller societies such as the London and Provincial Coachmakers' Society and the United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers. It represented the manufacturers of coaches and cars, and related trades such as smiths and wheelwrights. The union merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1972.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes and papers of the London District Committee of the National Union of Vehicle Builders.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/3289/001-016: Minutes; ACC/3289/017-018: Papers.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

These are the records of the London District Committee originally held at the Communist Party Archives.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in November 1993.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The main archive of the National Union of Vehicle Builders is held as part of the archive of the Transport and General Workers' Union at the Modern Records Centre, Warwick, reference MSS.126/VB.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Coach builders | Manufacturers | Industrial personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Coach building | Vehicle manufacture | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Coaches | Vehicles | Transport
Motor vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade unions | Labour relations
Wheelwrighting | Crafts
Wheelwrights | Craft workers | Skilled workers | Workers | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Crafts x Handicrafts

Personal names

Corporate names
National Union of Vehicle Builders | London District Committee

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe