pay&power: Amalgamated Engineering Union

The Amalgamated Engineering Union was established in 1851 as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. It was the first 'general' union of skilled and semi-skilled labour in the engineering industry, the product of a merger between craft unions such as millwrights, machinists, and smiths. The union still exists today as Amicus. The archive, held at the Modern Records Centre, includes some of the oldest and most important records for industrial history over the last 150 years.

Above: Engineer Jack Leckie addressing meeting at Hill Crest, Radford Road, Coventry, 1922, Below: Union certificate awarded to Charles Dixon, 1916,

"Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes. President - The Right Hon. Sir William Mather, L.L.D. Certicate Awarded To

"Charles Dixon, Municipal Technical School, Rochdale, for a First Class success (with Distinction) at the examination in the Preliminary Technical Course (Second Year) in the following subjects: -

"English, Practical Mathematics, Practical Drawing, Experimental Mechanics and Physics."

Images copyright of the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick; collection catalogued as part of the pay&power project.

The Modern Records Centre used documents from this collection to raise awareness of the service on the campus of the University of Warwick.