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Banner, Amalgamated Engineering Union
Tutill, George, 1950, Banner
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Banner, Amalgamated Engineering Union
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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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