Catalogue description A.P. YOUNG PAPERS

This record is held by Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

Details of MSS.242
Reference: MSS.242
Title: A.P. YOUNG PAPERS
Held by: Warwick University: Modern Records Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Young, Arthur Primrose, 1885 - 1977
Physical description: 22 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

The Centre's thanks are due to the Young family for kindly depositing A. P. Young's papers in the Centre.
Subjects:
  • British Thompson-Houston Company Ltd
  • Electrical industry
  • Christianity
  • Second World War, 1939-1945
Administrative / biographical background:

Arthur Primrose Young OBE (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. Outside the firm he played an important part in the professional development of works management, as a Christian in industry, in educational affairs, and briefly on the international scene through his contacts with a conservative opponent to Hitler, Dr Carl Goerdeler.

 

The author of one unpublished and two published autobiographies, numerous articles and speeches, the subject of media and research attention, Young used and reused his papers to such an extent that they were in considerable disorder when received. Major reorganisation on a subject and correspondent basis was deemed necessary, a number of apparently original files being retained in the process.
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