| Description | This collection consists mostly of papers of the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU or TGWU), including: minutes of their General Executive Council, and Finance, Emergency, and General Purposes Committees 1931-2001; reports, balance sheets, and accounts 1929-1977; Record, the T&GWU newsletter 1974-1995; and other T&GWU papers and reports. The collection also includes a run of National Union of Vehicle Builders (NUVB) Journals 1956-1972, alongside other miscellaneous trade union papers and publications. |
| AdminHistory | The Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU or TGWU) was founded 1 January 1922 following a series of conferences to combine fourteen trade unions operating in the transport and general workers' sectors, absorbing nearly twenty further unions by the end of the 1920s and eventually reaching a total of at least eighty. To learn more about the TSWU, visit the Warwick Modern Records Centre's research guide: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/research_guides/tgwu/
The National Union of Vehicle Builders (NUVB) was the successor of the United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers, founded 1834 by the Liverpool and Manchester Coachmakers' Societies following their co-operation on a strike. In 1919 it amalgamated with the London and Provincial Coachmakers' Society, the Operative Coachmakers and Wheelwrights' Federal Labour Union, and the London Coachsmiths and Vicemen's Trade Soiety to form the National Union of Vehicle Builders. In 1925, the NUVB also absorbed the Amalgamated Wheelwrights, Smiths and Kindred Trades Union, and in 1948 the Wheelwrights and Coachmakers' Operative Union. The union transferred to the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1972. |
| CustodialHistory | Kindly donated to LJMU Special Collections & Archives in 2012. |