Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsTrade UnionsHistoryWhile the industry can trace its origins back to coach-building workshops established in the 1850s, it was not until the late 1890s that a union was securely established. Initially known as the Coach-Makers Society, it was registered in 1917 as the Australian Coach Motor Car Tram Car Waggon Builders Wheelwrights and Rolling Stock Makers Employees' Federation. In 1938 the union became the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation until 1993 when it was amalgamated with the Metals and Engineering Workers Union the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Workers' Union. From 1994 it has been known as the Automative Food Metals and Engineering Union, and from 1995, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Vehicle Division.