Papers of Sir Jack Scamp (1913-1977), company director and industrial conciliator

Inquiry papers and other records of the Motor Industry Joint Labour Council (MIJLC) and related bodies, 1956-1968; records relating to various industrial relations issues (mainly inquiries or negotiations chaired by Scamp or in which he took an interest), 1950-1977. The records date predominantly from the period 1964-1977.

Sir Athelstan Jack Scamp (1913-1977), company director and industrial conciliator; left school at 14 to work for the Great Western Railway in Birmingham where he played amateur football for West Bromwich Albion. During the 1939-1945 war he served in the Royal Artillery. Later appointments include personnel director, General Electric Company, 1962; member of Devlin Committee of Inquiry into pay and methods of working in docks, 1964; chairman, Court of Inquiry into industrial relations of British Railways footplate staff, 1965; member of Industrial Court (later Industrial Arbitration Board); seconded from General Electric Company as industrial advisor to new Department of Economic Affairs, 1965; chairman of the Motor Industry Joint Labour Council, 1965-1968; knighted, 1968; called in as peacemaker in many different industries; non-executive director, Farfields (Glasgow) shipbuilders, 1967-1968; associate professor of industrial relations Warwick University, 1972; chairman management consultancy firm Urwick, Orr and Partners; companion of Institute of Electrical Engineers; fellow, Institute of Personnel Management and of British Institute of Management; chairman, Coventry City Football Club; deputy lieutenant of Warwickshire.

Reference: The Concise Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1992)

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

The papers were received in 1978 from the Scamp family.

Link to full catalogue: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/SCA

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

Further deposits are not expected.

Devlin Commission on Industrial and Commercial Representation/Advice Centre on the Organisation of Industrial and Commercial Representation, (MSS.230).