Scottish Steel Makers' Association (SSMA)

This collection contains: schemes for a selling agency for the SSMA and other steel associations, 1898-1923; minutes, 1897-1959.

From 1 May 1959 this body amalgamated with the North East Coast Steel Makers' Association to form the North East Coast and Scottish Steel Makers' Association.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

These records were among a series of deposits made by British Steel plc between 1995 and 1999.

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/SSM

There are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law.

The deposits made in the Centre by British Steel plc include records of the North East Coast Steel Makers' Association and the North East Coast and Scottish Steel Makers' Association. The largest part of these deposits is formed by the records of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) and its predecessor, the National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers. The deposits also include records of a number of regional and sectional iron and steel employers' organisations associated with the BISF, the statutory Iron and Steel Board and the nationalised British Steel Corporation.