Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries' Trade Union and predecessors

Rule books, 1890-1950; manuscript minutes of representative delegate committee, 1891-1897; memoranda, receipts and correspondence mainly related to finance, 1895-1919; quarterly reports and balance sheets, 1890-1934; annual report, 1905; rule books of other metal workers' unions, 1923-1946; No.1 branch rule book, 1890; Oldham and District cash book, 1890-1897.

The union was established as the Friendly Society of Plate Moulders of England, Ireland and Wales in 1890 and renamed the Amalgamated Society of Plate and Machine Moulders of England, Ireland and Wales in 1893, the Amalgamated Moulders' Union in 1907 and the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries' Trade Union in 1916. It merged with the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers in 1967.

Reference: H.J. Fyrth and H. Collins, 'The foundry workers, a trade union history'. (Manchester, 1959).

The reference codes of these records were determined by a superseded catalogue arrangement. The codes are therefore not necessarily in order in the catalogue.

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/APM

The archive has been deposited in the Centre on indefinite loan by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (Foundry Section). The first deposit consisted of fifty shelf feet of records collected from the AUEW office in Manchester by Janet Druker on 24th April 1974.

Records of the Constructional Engineering Union (MSS.273); the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (MSS.259); the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (MSS.101/DA); and the working papers of H.J. Fryth (MSS.224).