The papers of Arthur Primrose Young 1885-1980s

Engineering Employers' Federation

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London, England organization. From the description of Papers, 1958-1963. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36815854 The Employers' Federation of Engineering Associations was established on 24 April 1896. It was effectively a successor to the Iron Trades Employers' Association which had been founded earlier in 1872 but which was dissolved in 1900. By 1899 the Employers' Federation of Engineering Associations had become known as the Engineering Employ...

British Thomson-Houston.

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Amalgamated Engineering Union

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The Union was founded as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1851 by the coming together of a number of separate organisations for mechanics, smiths, millwrights, engineers and machinists. A number of other, mainly local, organisations joined between 1893 and 1915. In 1920 nine other unions (the Steam Engine Makers Society, the United Machine Workers Association, the United Kingdom Society of Amalgamated Smiths and Strikers, the Associated Brassfounders, Turners, Fitters, Finish...

British Works Management Association

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Young, Arthur Primrose (1885-1977).

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Arthur Primrose Young

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Arthur Primrose Young (1885-1977) was associated throughout his working life with British Thomson-Houston, the electrical equipment manufacturers of Coventry and Rugby, from which concern he retired as Works Manager in 1945. During his career he was works manager at British Thomson-Houston, Coventry 1921-8, and at British Thomson-Houston, Rugby, 1929-45. Outside the firm he played an important part in the professional development of works management. He was a Christian interested in...