File 1 - Correspondence with and re Michael O'Connor

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GB 249 OEDA CM/1/1

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Correspondence with and re Michael O'Connor

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  • 1944-1991, 1993-1998 (Creation)

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From a lever arch file inscribed 'CM | USA T&N | From 21.3.1944 | N.T. correspondence | M. O'CONNOR'

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Correspondence 1993-1998, re Michael O’Connor’s move to release copies of Turner & Newall records gathered in preparation of Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

At the time O’Connor was Vice President and Senior Associate Counsel of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Includes

  • set of Turner & Newall documents re insulation and shipbuilding, 1944-1950, with an overview
  • SPAID documentation on Dr Kevin Browne
  • set of Turner & Newall documents re asbestosis widows and press coverage of one of them, Molly Fisher
  • press coverage on Chase Manhattan’s case turning to dust, and an inquiry from Nancy Tait with London colleagues, asking could they let her have “the index to Mike O’Connor’s papers”

Closes with Nancy Tait corresponding re O’Connor’s Freedom of Information Award in the UK, 1995, in recognition of “his remarkable efforts to supply British victims of asbestos diseases with documents needed for their compensation claims."

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      • English

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