Main series of minutes, 1895-1950; minutes of committees, 1897-1949; minutes of negotiating conferences held with trade unions and union federations, 1897-1974; proceedings of public enquiries and analagous bodies, 1917-1927; financial and membership records, 1898-1959; subject and correspondence files, 1831-1969; Federation publications, 1898-1997 (including some Federation directories for between 1926 and 1995, and the EEF Review, its annual report, 1950-1994); other publications, 1913-1937; the memoirs of an EEF employee, 1961; EEF Constitution, 1992; national agreements, 1894-1993; local agreements, 1896-1936; press-cuttings, 1954-1971; statistical data (principally relating to wages), 1862-1965; case registers, 1941-59; wage movements figures, 1897-1925; wages index registers, 1947-1960; signed agreements, 1931-1978; wages agreements; circular letters, 1987-99; conference committee minutes, 1949-1974; and national conference proceedings, 1975-81 (incomplete).
The collection also includes records of: the Federated Admiralty Contractors, 1911-1965; the Bridgebuilding and Constructional Engineering Employers' Association, 1921-1927; the Gas Meter Making Employers' Federation, 1908-1921; and the Grimsby Engineering Employers' Association, 1919-1925.