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Aeronautical Engineers' Association


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1924 AEA

Held at: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University

Title: Aeronautical Engineers' Association

Date(s): 1943-1990

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Aeronautical Engineers' Association
Stevenson | J H | b 1915 | aeronautical engineer and trade unionist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Aeronautical Engineers' Association (AEA) was founded in 1943. It was formerly part of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
J H Stevenson (b 1915) was General Secretary of the AEA, 1944-1958.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers of J H Stevenson relating to the Aeronautical Engineers' Association (AEA), 1943-1954, comprising:
Photocopies of political correspondence, 1946-1958, correspondents include Brendan Bracken (1950), James Callaghan (1954), Ernest Marples (1952), Edward Heath (1952, 1958), H Montgomery Hyde (1951), Robert Carr (1950), Edward Grigg, Lord Altrincham (1958), Harold Macmillan, [later Earl of Stockton] (1950), Sir Gerald Nabarro (1950), Anthony Barber (1958), Sir Herbert Butcher, (1956), Lord Shawcross (1950), Fenner Brockway (1950), Viscount Hinchingbrooke (1958), and Enoch Powell (1953); copy of letter from Stevenson to The Times, on rear facing seats for aircraft passengers, 1990; group photographs of AEA annual conferences, 1946-1947; printed papers including Rule Books, 1943-1949, Wings: Official Organ of the Aeronautical Engineers' Association, 1943-1954 (incomplete series); pamphlets, 1944-1948; ephemera including Stevenson's membership cards, 1944-1963, and badges.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the Librarian.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the TUC Librarian and subject to copyright conditions.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

List available in the TUC Library

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Papers deposited by family, 2000.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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: Mar 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Aircraft engineering | Engineering
Trade unions | Labour relations
Aeronautics
Aerospace engineering
Transport engineering

Personal names
Bracken | Brendan Rendall | 1901-1958 | 1st Viscount Bracken | politician and publisher
Brockway | Archibald Fenner | 1888-1988 | Baron Brockway | politician x Brockway | Baron
Butcher | Sir | Herbert | 1901-1966 | 1st Baronet | politician
Callaghan | Leonard James | b 1912 | Baron Callaghan of Cardiff | statesman x Callaghan of Cardiff | Baron
Carr | Leonard Robert | b 1916 | Baron Carr of Hadley | politician
Grigg | Edward William Macleay | 1879-1955 | 1st Baron Altrincham | administrator and politician x Altrincham | 1st Baron
Heath | Sir | Edward Richard George | b 1916 | Knight | statesman
Hyde | Harford Montgomery | 1907-1989 | politician, barrister and writer
Macmillan | Maurice Harold Macmillan | 1894-1986 | 1st Earl of Stockton | statesman x Stockton | 1st Earl of
Marples | Alfred Ernest | 1907-1978 | Baron Marples of Wallasey | politician x Marples of Wallasey | Baron
Montagu | Alexander Victor Edward Paulet | 1906-1995 | formerly Viscount Hinchingbroke and 10th Earl of Sandwich x Hinchingbroke | Viscount x Sandwich | 10th Earl of
Nabarro | Sir | Gerald David Nunes | 1913-1973 | Knight | politician
Shawcross | Hartley William | b 1902 | Baron Shawcross | politician
Stevenson | J H | b 1915 | aeronautical engineer and trade unionist

Corporate names
Aeronautical Engineers' Association

Places