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Corporate correspondence and papers re media coverage on the asbestos industry, in particular the Yorkshire Television documentary ‘First Tuesday: Too close to home’ (broadcast 6 December 1988). 'Too close to home' told the story of the Armley community, where mortality from mesothelioma was unusually high due to exposure to asbestos dust from J W Roberts factory, which had closed in 1958.

Includes

• correspondence re I M D Grieve's MD thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1927) on asbestos deaths at the J W Roberts factory at Armley
• list of J W Roberts compensation claims to 1988
• correspondence re the Leeds mesothelioma study of Dr Lorna Arblaster

A copy of Grieve's MD thesis was removed as it duplicated copies elsewhere in the archive. See link below.

Correspondence including confidential reports prepared by Dr Peter Elmes, a medical consultant hired by T&N to review the asbestos and health conditions in T&N’s factories and mines. The documents contain references to efforts by senior T&N executives to suppress a number of reports. Includes copy of R H Armstrong & P C Elmes (1987) ‘Asbestos and health in Zimbabwe: a report on miners, millers and asbestos cement workers’.

Correspondence and papers re asbestos workers at the Havelock/Bulembu asbestos mine, Swaziland. The bulk of the file relates to an epidemiological study of workers at the mine, undertaken jointly by the Medical Research Council Pneumoconiosis Unit at Llandough Hospital, Penarth (Wales), T&N Ltd, Manchester, and the Havelock Mine, Swaziland.

Includes reports of visits to the mine, preliminary reports of the epidemiological study of chrysotile workers. The study was triggered by a report of Peter Elmes, at the time director of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit, Penarth, following a visit in 1978.

Correspondence re asbestosis litigation in the US.

Correspondence and papers (including minutes of board meetings re ex gratia payments to widows of industrial disease cases).

Correspondence, 1977-1986, between the Medical Research Council and the Company Medical Adviser of TAC Construction Materials Ltd re a follow-up study of TAC asbestos workers at Rhoose. The study had commenced in 1978. It followed up on an earlier study of 1000 workers conducted in 1962.

Includes a cover note by Michael O'Connor, c.1993.

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to persuade the Northern Ireland Hospital Authority not to ban the use of asbestos products in its hospitals.

Copies of records relating to compensation, 1975-1989, including extracts specifically on William Ashton Tait and his wife Nancy. Includes extensive drafts for a compensation scheme.

Correspondence and papers re the use and production of a slide / tape package to provide refresher courses on asbestos and health for shop stewards and supervisors.

Correspondence and papers re successive studies of mortality among former workers at J W Roberts Armley factory. One survey looked specifically at women and was undertaken by Dr Leo Kinlan, statistican to Dr Richard Doll, Oxford, during the 1970s. The second project was undertaken by Leeds City Council and looked more broadly at mesothelioma deaths in Leeds.

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to T&N seminars of Industrial Medical Officers (IMO seminars), 1970-1974. Also re offering similar seminars for GPs in the Rochdale area.

Photocopy of typescript ‘Turner & Newall: the first fifty years', by L T C Rolt, c.1970. Also includes photocopy of form 'Department of Employment Medical Examination of Asbestos Workers (Asbestos Regulations 1969)', marked "From Ferodo".

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (1910-1974) was an English writer and engineer.

Corporate correspondence and papers re media coverage on the asbestos industry, in particular the Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Alice: a fight for life’ (broadcast 20 July 1982). The programme was named after Alice Jefferson, who developed malignant pleural mesothelioma thirty years after working at an asbestos plant for a few months as a teenager. The film documented her last days and explored the health issues surrounding the manufacture and use of asbestos products.

Includes

• formal complaint to the Independent Broadcasting Authority by Wilfred Penney (Asbestos Information Centre)
• T&N's extensive point by point refutations of statements made in the documentary, among them the allegation that T&N had removed four pages from the evidence it submitted to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Committee) in 1976-1977; presumably the tables 'Airborne asbestos dust survey results' 1961-1972, see http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-turner-newall-tables-to-aca )

The bulk of the file dates from 1982-1983. Covering correspondence with Chase Manhattan is dated 1993.

Correspondence and papers re the new asbestos regulations, in some respects filling gaps in the previous aggregation.

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to counter the findings in a report by the University of Leeds re the health hazards of using asbestos in buildings.