This collection includes: rules and related records; minutes and papers of executive council, committees and conferences; accounts; circulars; correspondence; periodical and other publications; research records; records on appointment of officers.
Post Office Engineering Union
This material is held atModern Records Centre, University of Warwick
- Reference
- GB 152 PEU
- Former Reference
- GB 152 PEU
- Dates of Creation
- 1855-1985
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 362 boxes (361 [MSS.135], 1 [927])
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Post Office Amalgamated Engineering and Stores Association was founded in 1915 when the Post Office Engineering and Stores Association merged with the Amalgamated Society of Telephone Employees. In 1919 it became the Post Office Engineering Union. In 1925 it absorbed the Post Office Telegraph Mechanicians' Society. In 1985 POEU amalgamated with the Postal and Telecommunications Group of the Civil and Public Services Association to form the National Communications Union. In January 1995 the Union of Communication Workers and the National Communications Union merged to form the Communication Workers' Union.
The Engineering Officers' (Telecommunications) Association was a breakaway union whose members defected from the Post Office Engineering Union in 1945. After the Terrington Committee recommended closer association between unions in the Post Office, the Association was dissolved and its membership returned to the Post Office Engineering Union.
Reference: '75 years. A short history of the POEU' (POEU, 1962); F. Bealey, 'The Post Office Engineering Union : the history of the Post Office Engineers, 1870-1970' (London, 1976).
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/PEU