Collection

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.

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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. Reference: for working life at Cowley see Making cars. London, 1985.

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Papers of Richard Albert Etheridge (1909-1985), trade unionist and Communist; Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd. / British Leyland Motor Corporation; Diaries and papers of Ron Savage, Industrial Relations Manager at British Leyland, Longbridge; Morris Motors Ltd; records assembled by Professor Steven Tolliday for research into the British automotive industry.

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