Rover shop stewards minutes, 1950-75; British Leyland joint management committees minutes, 1976-9; Amalgamated Engineering Union, Birmingham East district, divisional, and local minutes, 1947, 1964-76; British Leyland Motor Corporation Combined Trade Union Committee various minutes, 1968-79; subject files.
Papers of Peter Nicholas (1914-2003), trade unionist
This material is held atModern Records Centre, University of Warwick
- Reference
- GB 152 PTN
- Former Reference
- GB 152 PTN
- Dates of Creation
- 1947-1979
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 19 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Peter Nicholas was born at Worcester in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he began work at the Star Motor Company and gained skills as a universal grinder. In 1943, he became a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and, five years later, he became an employee of the Rover company. In the same year, 1948, he secured election both as a shop steward and as an AEU convenor and became Secretary of the Joint Shop Stewards' Committee.
Access Information
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/
Other Finding Aids
Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/PTN
Custodial History
These papers of the prominent Rover shop steward Peter Nicholas were given to the Modern Records Centre in 1991.