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.