Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Vehicle Workers

Various series of reports, 1897-1919; accounts, 1892-93; rulebook, 1891; Souvenirs, 1910-16; 'Tramway and Vehicle Worker', 1905

The Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Hackney Carriage Employees was founded in 1889. In 1893 it became the Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Hackney Carriage Employees and Horsemen in General, in 1902 the Tramway, Hackney Carriage Employees and Horsemen's Association, and in 1903 the Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Vehicle Workers. By 1910 the Amalgamated Association was the main national union for tramway employees, and also catered for bus workers, cab drivers and commercial transport workers. In 1919 it merged with the London and Provincial Union of Licensed Vehicle Workers to become the United Vehicle Workers.

Prior written permission to consult almost all unpublished records in this archive is required. Researchers should apply to Mr Jim Mowatt, Director of Education at the successor union UNITE, Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, London WC1X 8TD, or by e-mail care of Helen Dadzie (helen.dadzie@unitetheunion.org). Publications may be consulted without permission.

If permission has been obtained, 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/.

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

The collection was deposited in the Centre by the Transport and General Workers' Union, which inherited it from the United Vehicle Workers

See also MSS.126/UVW (United Vehicle Workers)