Catalogue description RECORDS OF THE COVENTRY PRECISION SHOPS STEWARDS' COMMITTEE

This record is held by Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

Details of MSS.291
Reference: MSS.291
Title: RECORDS OF THE COVENTRY PRECISION SHOPS STEWARDS' COMMITTEE
Description:

Minutes, 1946-71; out-letter books, 1963-7; papers re wages, 1967-72; papers of Herbert Haycock, convenor, 1950-70.

Date: 1946-72
Held by: Warwick University: Modern Records Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Coventry Precision Shop Stewards' Committee

Physical description: 4 series
Access conditions:

Open.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records of the Coventry Precision Shop Stewards' Committee were acquired by the Industrial Relations Research Unit in about 1973 and transferred to the Modern Records Centre in 1988.

Subjects:
  • Labour relations
Administrative / biographical background:

Coventry Precision Ltd. (formerly Coventry Repetition Ltd.) was acquired by the Dowty Group in 1951. Coventry Precision was a sub-contractor. In its machine shops components for other Dowty companies were manufactured. The Dowty Group was particularly associated with the production of aircraft landing gear, but in the post-war period diversified into marine and mining engineering and other fields. Coventry Precision is still in business at Exhall near Coventry. It moved from Earlsdon in 1961.

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