London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Trade Society: Minutes, 1842-55; accounts, 1861-71 (incomplete).
London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Trade Society : price list, 1847; pension society reports, 1842-76 (incomplete).
London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society : balance sheets, 1842-9, 1863-4.
London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society: amalgamation agreement, 1877.
The London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Trade Society was formed in 1805 and the London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Trade Society in 1846. In 1875 they amalgamated to form the Amalgamated Society of Tin-Plate Workers, London.
They respectively formed the London Operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society in 1828 and the London Co-operative Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society in 1856. These also amalgamated in 1875 to form the Amalgamated Tin-Plate Workers' Pension Society, London, although formal amalgamation does not appear to have taken place until 1877.
Reference: Ted Brake, Men of Good Character: A history of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers( Lawrence and Wishart: London, 1985).
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/LTP
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.
