Banner, Amalgamated Engineering Union

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

22421

Title

Banner, Amalgamated Engineering Union

Description

Red cotton/silk banner with blue silk border and corded fringe and a different painted design on each side. Obverse: roundel with painted scene of a ship, a train (the Coronation Scot) and a truck with the number plate GTL 1950. Title
scroll, AMALGAMATED ENGINEERING UNION in gold lettering. Crossed a hammer and wrench on the left and square and compasses on right.

Artist / maker

Tutill, George

Date

1950

Size

210cm x 165cm

Type

Banner

Location

The People's Story

Accession number

HH5594/92

The district banners of the A.E.U. were all made to a standard design in 1950, the date appears on the numberplate. A late Tutill banner, but still in the firm's unmistakable style.

Formed 1851 as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers,
the name was changed in 1920 to the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

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