Amalgamated Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society, London

Annual report, 1876; rules, 1877.

The Amalgamated Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society, London was formed in 1875 by the amalgamation of the London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society and the London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society. Formal amalgamation does not seem to have taken place until 1877, although the two societies were certainly operating together before that.

The records form part of the archive of Manufacturing, Science, Finance (MSS.101) and within that are a constitutent of the archive of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers (MSS.101/SM).

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

This archive was transferred to the Modern Records Centre from the National Museum of Labour History in October 1989 and April 1990.

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TPP

There are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law.

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Further deposits are not expected.

The records of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers and many of its other predecessors are also held at the Modern Records Centre (MSS.101/SM). These include the records of the Amalgamated Society of Tin-Plate Workers, London and its successors (MSS.101/SM/LS) and the London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Trade Society and the London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society (MSS.101/SM/LOC).