Reference number
  • WOR
Date
  • 1915-1984
Level
  • Collection
Description
  • Rover Combine Shop Stewards' Committee minutes, 1952-55, 1959-60; Rover Group senior shop stewards' minutes, 1971-80 (incomplete); various Rover Solihull / Garrison Street shop stewards' minutes, 1960-83; Rover Tyseley Shop Stewards' Committee minutes, 1949-70; subject files; claims & grievance reports of Leyland Solihull, 1978-81; shop steward diaries, 1970-80 (incomplete); tapes & transcripts of interviews with Rover employees, 1979, 1982-3; Leyland agreements, 1970-83. Transport and General Workers' Union. Rover Solihull 5/357 branch: minutes, 1960-79; Rover Solihull TGWU Production Shop Stewards minutes, 1972-80; Rover Solihull TGWU Works Committee, 1975-80 and other Rover Company branches' papers.
Extent
  • 15 boxes
Admin history
  • Paul Worm conducted over fifty interviews with Rover trade unionists and management, which form the core of this collection. The interviews took place in the period 1982-3 as part of a research project that Paul Worm undertook with Professor Steven Tolliday under the auspices of the King's College Research Centre, Cambridge. Also included in the collection are interviews and detailed descriptions of shop stewards' meetings from a research project at British Leyland in 1979.
Access status
  • Open
Related material
  • There is some duplication between this collection and the collection deposited in 2017 by Paul Worm's colleague Professor Steven Tolliday, particularly of oral history materials.
Language/scripts of material
  • English